Exactly, I just put the "old Europe" in there to get a rise out of Skybird because I like his lengthy, well thought out, "wall of text" he always writes as a response. The fact is French were working with Saddam way before the US ever did, and we never gave him nuclear technology. Our purpose in dealing with him was to try to straighten out that Iran mess that Jimmy Carter got the US into. Avon Lady pretty much summed that all up very well.
While I think of der spiegel as a biased source of information, the French have been long known to have questionable relationships with people that they shouldn't be dealing with. I haven't read anything on Sarkozy yet that said he was trading technology to Arab nations but if he is then the US should reconsider France. I was happy to see Sarkozy elected mainly because I have a passionate hatred for socialism and his rival was a socialist.
I do find it strange that Lybia was mentioned. I thought Kaddafi pretty much gave all that up after we caught a weapons shipment headed there from N. Korea a few years back. Looks like he needs another dose of Reagan diplomacy.
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