i had mistakenly assumed

[CADAOBH@aol.com]

Yeah, as long as Saddam is alive...and spending lots and lots and lots of 
Iraqi money on French imports, why would the French want to have a regime 
change? If you can't have colonies, you can have economic satrapies, right?  
Anyone notice the "tightening up" of the situation in the former French 
Congo?  

Saddam is still a rat of the first class...and anyone who thinks Jerry Lewis 
and the Three Stooges are the highest form of American humor should be locked 
up and denied quiche, truffles, duck Leonardo and Dom Perignon for the rest 
of *their* lives.

This is *not* about "humanitarian" or even "war" concerns, this is about the 
French export and balance of trade business.  As soon as the US agrees to 
prop up what might be lost (and guess who will end up paying for this 
blackmail?) France will cheerfully sip and muse and nod while American kids 
die.   

wj