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Originally posted by highthief
Quite honestly, France was the one country that has always wanted to end the food-for-oil program and made no bones about it. If they were benefiting so much as a nation from food-for-oil, why did they agitate to end sanctions against the Iraqi people?
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Quite simple really: without the oil-for-food program, French companies were going to make way more money then they ever had with the program in place.
Think for a moment... if the sanctions would have been lifted, who would have gained the most? Not US companies, that's for sure. It would have been France, Russia, Germany, China. Exactly those countries opposing the war, and promoting the lifting of sanctions. Saddam used to thank his friends by giving them money and lucrative contracts.