Article

2007-05-24 Europe

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by anonymous2u 2007-05-24 00:01|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Oh, don't tell me someone is trying to besmirch the stellar and righteous record of Al-Shiraq now that he has stepped down. The manners, please, the manners.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-24 00:36|| 2007-05-24 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Just £30m?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-05-24 02:08|| 2007-05-24 02:08|| Front Page Top

#3 touche.

Posted by Danking70 2007-05-24 03:15|| 2007-05-24 03:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Just £30m?

Hey, lighten up, it's his sushi chef's payroll account. The real money's in the Cayman Islands.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-24 04:54|| 2007-05-24 04:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Around 50 milllion dolars in one account. PS: In his 12 years of presidency his total earnings as president were far inferior to 5 million dollars so even if we assume that he didn't spend a cent there are 45 millions who have materialized out of thin air. Thin iraki or saudi air.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-05-24 06:33|| 2007-05-24 06:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Let me take a stab at it... Iraqi oil for food money?

Posted by newc">newc 2007-05-24 09:33|| 2007-05-24 09:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Good God. You have an incriminating bank account, so you call up the head of the spook department, point him to the docs, and ask him for help?

What kind of idiot does that? Wouldn't the head spook's first instict be to feather his own nest with a little blackmail-worthy material? And ol' Jack couldn't see that coming?

Zut Alors!

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-05-24 12:19|| 2007-05-24 12:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Wouldn't the head spook's first instinct be to feather his own nest with a little blackmail-worthy material?

You're implying that French spookmasters are no different than American spookmasters? I'm shocked! Shocked, I say!

Publicists: Your royalties from the book deal, sir.
Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-05-24 13:57|| 2007-05-24 13:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Good God. You have an incriminating bank account, so you call up the head of the spook department, point him to the docs, and ask him for help?

What kind of idiot does that?

Chirac is that kind of idiot. In 1969 he was tresaurer for George Pompidou's presidential campaign. Pompidou was lagging in teh polls so donators saw no reason to give to someone who was going to lose. That is when Chirac told Pompidou the Saudis had offered several suitcases full of money and he had accepted. Pompidou nearly had a heart attack (money from foreign power specially one not particularly palatable) and had the deal cancelled. (Not sure Chirac obeyed the order hower). Unfortunately Pompidou didn't terminate Chirac's carreer who by then was still unknown.

Second example: He provided nuclear technology to Saddam despite the strong possibility that Saddam could use it against France, threaten other Arab countries with it and get a monopoly on oil (not in the intesrest of France) or proliferate it to other Arab countries (Saddam was panarabist) who could have been unfriendly to France. That is what he was ready to do in order to get a slighht improvement on France's foreign deficit.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-05-24 17:28|| 2007-05-24 17:28|| Front Page Top

23:49 ryuge
22:56 Pearl Gretch4271
22:53 DMFD
22:49 Joe Dyton
22:40 WTF
22:10 RD
22:10 Glenmore
21:46 bruce
21:46 PlanetDan
21:17 Mike Kozlowski
21:15 Skunky Glins5285
21:15 Zenster
21:12 Pappy
21:09 Old Patriot
21:04 DMFD
21:03 Anguper Hupomosing9418
21:02 Natural Law
20:44 OldSpook
20:34 OldSpook
20:33 Shieldwolf
20:23 Deacon Blues
20:03 Barbara Skolaut
20:01 remoteman
19:55 Dar