There's as joke current in New York at the moment. "We know that Sadam had WMD and Chemical weapons . We still have the receipts". Point is that USA, UK, and indeed France and most of the world traded with Sadam. And Alan is right about France to the extent that Chirac is a crook. Ask any Frenchman. They'll vote him out next time round. His earlier comments about the French however are juvenile and border on the racist. Disgusting. Change French to "black" and you'd be breaking the law. One of the things that filled me with short-lived hope when Labour was elected in 1997 was Robin Cook saying that he would introduce a "moral dimension" into Britain's dealings with the rest of the world. And we all know what happened to Robin. When it comes to trade, money, all the countries piss in the same pot. Right this minute sonmebody in Burma, or Indonesia, or some place in Africa will be getting their innocent head blown off by munitions from the West, or Russia, or China, by butchers being transported in Land Rovers, or Jeeps, or Saviems, or Merc. If its French, it will be because they offered bigger bribes than us, and some kid will be dying of starvation whilst you eat your burgers, and some woman will be dying in childbirth because the doctors have all conme to Europe to get a job. Governments - ALL governments - will only be as moral as you force them to be.

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