... by Craig Bisbing, in 1972 Saddam Hussein visited Paris and agreed to sell oil to France. For the past thirty years France has been supporting Hussein by purchasing oil from him. France later became Iraq's second largest weapon supplier after the Soviet Union; they also sold a nuclear reactor to Hussein ... in 1976. One year prior to the Gulf War, French Defense Minister and the founder of the Iraqi-French Friendship Association Jean-Pierre Chevenement promised to raise "bilateral relations to a higher level"(1). In November, Iraqi Oil ... supported us, like France and Russia, will cert...

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... use these weapons against neighboring countries, and the people of Iraq. In 1988 the Kurds were attacked by the largest chemical weapon attack against civilians in history. There is no reason a person like this should be able to posses a nuclear weapon let alone want to be able to continue to build these weapons. United States intelligence knows that he has the capability ... to check up on. He has even launched terrorist attacks against Non Government Organizations and United Nation workers. Saddam has not done the best for his people. There is the oil-for-food program that is designed...

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... the war. I feel by opposing this war, we can answer whether or not president Bush is telling the truth. Opposing reasons like the greed of oil, the millions of dollars, and if the war is still about terrorism. When president bush engaged war with Iraq the United Nations said it was unconstitutional ... on these opposing ideas, I think this war has nothing to do with the war on terrorism and that its basically for the huge natural resource of oil. I find president Bush to be very greedy, because this is the 21st century and there are many ways to solve the problem with our energy resource ...

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