[grampster]

I wonder why, when the Security Council debates the efficacy of America's desire to disarm Saddam "one way or another", we constantly hear France, Russia, Germany and others bemoaning the unilateralism of America, calling for restraint, more inspections, giving Saddam another chance to comply, etc etc. ad nauseaum, that the representative from America or from England or another of the countries that support us, do not call into question the motivation of France, Russia, Germany and others for opposing compliance to 1441 by Iraq or suffer the consequences, now. I mean directly and bluntly! If we are going to war, we ought not to be mincing words here, I don't think.

In other words, tit for tat! Why not expose the ulterior and yes the unilateral motivation,economic and political that each of these recalcitrant nations stand to gain from the status quo? Can anyone illuminate me as to why the US delegation and others seemingly are mum about our "former" allies and the deals that they or their leaders have struck with Saddam? And why doesn't someone insist that this be part of the equation?
There certainly seems to be a wealth of information freely floating around the various media outlets, Fox etc... to bring this to light in the forum of the United Nations.

[Baba Louie]

grampster,

whereas I'm sure everyone really knows whats going on behind the curtains (wish I did), it wouldn't be oh so proper to come out and call a lie a lie and a truth a truth. Sides that, I'm sure that the US has many pieces of dirty laundry they'd like to keep behind their own curtain.

Something about statesmanship and negotiations.

France pretty much thinks it controls the mediterranean basin from what I read, and as such pays a lot of lip service to the mid-eastern kneel towards Mecca boys.

We, on the other hand, pretty much dance when Israel and her minions start playing the tunes. Kinda our backup ace in the sleeve in that portion of the world, now that the Shah no longer hangs his hat in Iran. Britian still has plenty of ties to Iran tho' (BP) and isn't really the Great Satan that we seem to be.

Oil is pretty much everybodies friend and a good basic barometer of your economy.

So, I think (FWIW) that Uncle Sam is trying hard not to dirty up the kitty litter too much, cause as the old saying goes, "When you point your finger at him, there's three fingers pointing right back atcha."

And there's always the who's buying whom what with their monies. Be it Oil, aid for AIDS, aid for food, aid for military toys. We do seem to have the biggest checkbook at this time but China's not far behind, what with everything bought new in America being made there, or so it seems.

Course, I could be wrong.

Time will tell, as in all things.

Adios