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Originally posted by Morpheus X: This shows that there is a differents between companies involved with Iraq and government involved with Iraq! Since its a proven fact that IBM was involved making business with "The third Reich" during WWII and i dont think the US Government was on Hitlers side! |
This argument is totally garbage, as the french government could stop these countries from doing business. and the french government is the one whining to get the sanctions lifted so the french oil companies can put the contracts they already have signed with iraq into effect.
Further more if you want to place a distinction between government and companies, how can you say the US is in this for oil money? After all there is a difference between companies and government, at least according to you.
For informationon how french and russian oil companies pushed heavily on goverment to stall at the UN, see
http://usainreview.com/1_21_Security_Council.htm
Cronyism exists on both sides of the Atlantic
It also helps to know that while IBM did help the nazi's it was IBM's maneuvering and scheming to hide this fact from the US govermentthat allowed this to happen. Their were numerous investigations on this at the time, and it was only later that IBM was forced to admit that they were invovled with Germany.
http://www.acsa2000.net/ibm_and_hitler.htm
Not like today where the companies are blatantly trying to get a piece of the oil pie and keep saddam in power.