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Originally Posted by Sun Tzu

Im only asking because Im probably missing some data; wasn’t France Saddam's enemy?

Nope, I think its safe to say France was anything but Saddam's enemy.

France has been in bed with Saddam for a long time, dating back to the early 80's w/ Osirak Nuclear reactor (thank you Israel). Also if I'm not mistaken, didn't the French not get behind Gulf War I?

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...DA6E6647AA.htm

another wrinkle in the situation---the release has apparently been copmlicated b american actions, according to this article at least. interesting. i wonder what is really going on...any theories?

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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei

Also if I'm not mistaken, didn't the French not get behind Gulf War I?

You are mistaken.

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The United States, especially Secretary of State James Baker, assembled a coalition of forces to join it in opposing Iraq, consisting of soldiers from 34 countries: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Honduras, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, The Netherlands, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States itself.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War)