That erstwhile contemptible idiot, the Emperor of the French, Jacques Chirac recently criticized US policy in Iraq and the ‘pitfalls of unilateralism’. That is rich. According to Reuters Chirac stated that the Iraq war has now ‘offered terrorism a new field for expansion’, adding later in his speech that he feverishly prays for the day when, ‘Western domination of the world has ended [since international] poverty…is a moral scandal.’ Chirac epitomizes the lazy thinking, the rejection of reality and the anti-Western secularism that is paralyzing and belittling Europe. He is in short just another moronic, hypocritical and corrupt Francophone. Chirac is about as corrupt as any French leader can be – which is saying something. To say that the French are perfidious, arrogant and corrupt is about as edifying as saying that smoking tobacco is bad for your health. Chirac is part of the European problem – an elitist trained technocrat with deep ties to Marcel Dassault who runs France’s largest aerospace and defense empire. In fact the linkages between Dassault’s family, his firms and Chirac is so deep they are only superceded by the exchange of favors between Chirac and his now dead friend – Saddam Hussein. [see Kenneth Timmerman’s excellent books including his latest ‘The French betrayal of America’] Chirac was educated in an elite school that grooms French leadership. His family was well off and importantly for Chirac had strong business ties with one of France’s leading post war industrialists – the little known, but extremely powerful Marcel Dassault who was a Jew that Frenchified and changed his family name. Dassault [ne Blocker] built up the French defense and aerospace industry – with generous public funds; government protection and political interference. He taught Chirac the game of French politics. Thanks to Dassault’s tutelage and money Chirac entered the French government at a high level in the early 1970s becoming in the next 36 years Premier, President, a mayor of Paris and the holder of other high ranking portfolios. It was in 1974 that Chirac met and befriended Hussein. At that time Chirac was the French Premier [#2 man in the French government] and traveled to Baghdad to meet the No. 2 man in the Iraqi government, Vice President Saddam Hussein. During that visit, Chirac and Hussein conducted negotiations on a range of issues, the most important of these being Iraq’s purchase of nuclear reactors. Chirac sold the Iraqi’s 2 nuclear reactors in 1975 – and magically that same year with unaccounted for money, Chirac started his own political party. Since French law does not make it mandatory to reveal political funding there is much speculation that the nuclear reactor deal with Hussein involved millions in kick-backs to Chirac. According to Kenneth Timmerman and others, ‘runners’ started carrying cash between Hussein and Chirac from the mid 1970s on. A former ‘runner’ has testified that he alone carried hundreds of thousands of dollars from Hussein to Geneva, to give to a Chirac agent. Millions were sent via agents from Hussein to Chirac ostensibly to grease the wheels of ‘good commerce’ and get favorable terms on French-Iraqi trade and investment. In late 1975 Chirac and France agreed to sell Iraq $1.5 billion worth of weapons -- including the integrated air defense system that was destroyed by the United States in 1991. The French sent to Iraq about 60 Mirage F1 fighter planes, surface-to-air missiles and advanced electronics. The Iraqis, for their part, agreed to sell France $70 million worth of oil. Lots of kick-backs and missing money have been documented in this trade. In the 1990s when Chirac became President the ties between France and Iraq deepened. In the 1990s during the Oil for Food scandal – in which the UN made $1 billion in profits as 300.000 Iraqi’s died – Hussein gave Chirac now President of France exclusive contracts for oil development; oil refining; missile defense deployment; and other large-scale industrial projects. The relationship was so lucrative for Chirac that his government was desperate to maintain its exclusive oil contracts with Saddam's regime, which would have earned the French an estimated $100 billion during the first seven years of operations, according to French officials, documents found by the Americans in Baghdad post 2003, and contracts drawn up between the French and Iraqi’s during the 1990s. During the Oil for Food period, the French were making $7 billion per annum in illegal and contra-UN policy profits. Chirac’s ties with Hussein and money informed French policy on Iraq – not concerns about Iraqi welfare; the people; or high moralist rhetoric about aiding the non-Western world. Kenneth Timmerman – a man with 20 years experience of reporting in Paris on French military and foreign policy - details how the French betrayed US trust at in 2002 regarding the upcoming Iraq War: “Before the first U.N. vote in early November 2002 (actually, it was the 17th U.N. resolution condemning Saddam and calling on him to voluntarily disarm or suffer the consequences, which included his forceful ouster), Jacques Chirac picked up the phone and called President Bush at the White House, personally reassuring him that France "would be with" us at the U.N. and in Iraq.” To demonstrate his intentions, he said, he was sending one of his top generals to Tampa, Florida, to work out the details with U.S. Central Command leaders for integrating French troops into a Coalition force to oust Saddam. Chirac's assurances are what gave the president the confidence to keep sending Colin Powell back to the U.N.," one source who was privy to Chirac's phone call to Bush told me. "They also explain why the administration has been going after the French so aggressively ever since. They lied." Quel surprise. So the US wasted time at the UN, looking every bit the dopey superpower while the French played political games behind the scenes stoking up anti-Americanism at the UN and in the liberal media, and warmly assuring Hussein that the US would never invade – thanks to French obstructionism. Perversely this gave Hussein confidence that he could milk the Oil for Food scandal [he stole about $10 billion from the program] and begin anew his creation of new weapons to launch yet another regional war to try and control Persian Gulf oil supplies. French assurances and anti-American rhetoric falsely mollified Hussein who a mere 5 years later would be dead, with his country under a shaky US occupation. But Chirac’s corruption does not only involve Iraq. Chirac has mused about running again for President – most likely to avoid being criminally prosecuted for graft and fraud. From 1977 to 1995 Chirac was mayor of Paris and is widely believed to have received $1.5 million in cash kick-backs on public contracts. Witnesses have testified on video that he not only demanded money on public projects but kept a vault of cash in his office with which he liberally greased hands in meetings. If the charges are true than the immunity offered by the office of President is Chirac’s best hope of staying out of jail. Chirac is a sorry man, with a sordid past. Where the French reside corruption, double-talk, hypocrisy and criminality exist and Chirac’s career exemplifies this truism. If you want to defame and destabilize political institutions then ask the French to help out. If you want to derange the European political project and create a 6 layered structure of governmental incompetence and budgetized corruption then ask the French to design and run it. If you want to bastardize and turn international institutions against Western culture, mores and the Jews, then look no further than the French to lead and inform them. If you want a pro-Arab, pro-Muslim rewriting of recent and past history then let the French control the presses. France long ceased being a bulwark of Western culture. Its janus-faced approach to all matters is epitomized by its sad, sorry leader Jacques Chirac. Chirac’s idiocy reflects French history and its cadre of demagogic leaders. The French revolution was the first eruption of the socialist revolution and was a bloody disaster. It ended with the tyrant Napoleon who looted and raped Europe for his family’s benefit setting back European development by 2 generations. De Gaulle was saved by the British and then the Americans during the Second World War, only to repay his benefactors with anti-Anglo rhetoric, pulling France out of NATO and making sure that Britain had no voice in the affairs of Europe. So it goes with France – a nation that has very little which is world-class except their great skill in electing obnoxious, arrogant, and criminally tainted world-class buffoons and tyrants to power. Welcome to the world of French Emperor and President Jacques Chirac. In Chirac and Dominque Villepin[head] his foreign minister the French have reached an acme of political insouciance and ignorance that is indeed world class. Recent Chirac statements on the Iraq war confirm his mental impairment and outlandish double standards. He would make a fine UN Secretary General one day – perhaps after another corrupt Frenchman Jean Chretien former Prime Minister of what was once the Dominion of Canada [and is now the socialist republic thereof] has had his turn.
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That erstwhile contemptible idiot, the Emperor of the French, Jacques Chirac recently criticized US policy in Iraq and the ‘pitfalls of unilateralism’. That is rich. According to Reuters Chirac stated that the Iraq war has now ‘offered terrorism a new field for expansion’, adding later in his speech that he feverishly prays for the day when, ‘Western domination of the world has ended [since international] poverty…is a moral scandal.’ Chirac epitomizes the lazy thinking, the rejection of reality ...
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