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*** 27-Sep-19 World View -- The fraud of France's Jacques Chirac in the Iraq war
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** The fraud of France's Jacques Chirac in the Iraq war
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Jacques Chirac on March 11, 2007, shortly before stepping down as president. After leaving office, he was found guilty of misuse of public money, breach of trust and illegal conflict of interest (RFI)
Jacques Chirac, who was president of France between 1995 and 2007,
died on Thursday. He had previously served two terms as prime
minister, from 1974-76 and 1986-88, and was mayor of Paris from
1977-1995.
According to the current president, Emmanuel Macron:
<QUOTE>"We are remembering tonight with emotion and
affection his freedom, his personality, the talent he had to
reconcile simplicity and grandeur, proximity and dignity, love of
the motherland and openness to the universal."<END QUOTE>
However, another French politician said anonymously: "People think
Chirac is a decent guy, but not very bright. In fact, he's exactly the
opposite."
In fact, Chirac was extremely controversial as president, although the
thing that he was most praised for was standing up to President George
Bush and refusing to join America and Britain in the 2003 war against
Saddam Hussein in Iraq. According to British journalist Sophie
Pedder:
<QUOTE>"Much to criticise about his time as French president
(twice), prime minister (twice) and Paris mayor. But Jacques
Chirac (1932-2019) was right on Iraq, prescient about
multi-polarity, brave to acknowledge France's responsibility under
Vichy--and an improbable icon of French cool
pic.twitter.com/KHkQE9gHaM"<END QUOTE>
Born in 1932, he was too young to fight in World War II, but later in
life he was praised for acknowledging France's collaboration with the
Nazis during the war, including the deportation of Jews from France to
Nazi concentration camps.
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**** Jacques Chirac and Saddam Hussein's Oil-for-Food scam
****
As I recently described, the 2003 Iraq war occurred as the result of
panic in the West over weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), 58 years
after nuking of Japan in 1945 at the end of World War II. (See
discussion of 58-Year Hypothesis in "2-Sep-19 World View -- Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon border clash fizzles quickly, no repeat of 2006 war"
)
Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons against the Kurds and the
Iranians in 1988 at the end of the Iran/Iraq war, and had continued
developing chemical weapons during the 1990s. Saddam refused UN WMD
inspections under President Bill Clinton, and his response was to
order bombing campaigns on military targets in Iraq.
However, military action did not go farther than that until 2003, 58
years after the nuking of Japan, as the age cohort of people who were
children in 1945 suddenly became anxious that the WMDs would be used
again, causing a general panic. (58-Year Hypothesis) Saddam was
resolutely opposing UN inspections, and many people read this as a
sign of guilt.
Most countries were convinced that Saddam was still developing WMDs,
and many endorsed the British and American plan for a ground war in
Iraq. The two major exceptions were Russia and France. In the case
of Russia, it was thought that the reason was that the Russians still
hoped to collect the $10 billion that Iraq owed to Russia, mainly for
illegal arms deals.
Jacques Chirac was president of France at the time, and he announced
that he would veto any UN Security Council resolution authorizing the
military action. That's why so much of the mainstream media is
heaping praise on Chirac.
Chirac insisted that his opposition to the Iraq war was principled,
but an investigation revealed that Chirac and his family and some of
his ministers were deeply implicated in a lucrative scam to divert
millions of dollars of profits of the UN's oil-for-food program into
their own private coffers.
So, in my opinion, Chirac does not deserve one bit of adulation he's
been receiving these last two days. He opposed the Iraq war, because
he didn't care how many people Saddam killed with WMDs, but he wanted
to keep the fraudulent millions pouring into his coffers.
Chirac was formally charged in 2007 after he left office as president,
losing immunity from prosecution. In 2011, he was found guilty of
misuse of public money, breach of trust and illegal conflict of
interest while he was mayor of Paris, and given a two-year suspended
jail sentence.
Sources:
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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, France, Jacques Chirac,
Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Oil-For-Food, Russia
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- The fraud of France's Jacques Chirac in the Iraq war
- Jacques Chirac and Saddam Hussein's Oil-for-Food scam
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**** The fraud of France's Jacques Chirac in the Iraq war
****
Jacques Chirac on March 11, 2007, shortly before stepping down as president. After leaving office, he was found guilty of misuse of public money, breach of trust and illegal conflict of interest (RFI)
Jacques Chirac, who was president of France between 1995 and 2007,
died on Thursday. He had previously served two terms as prime
minister, from 1974-76 and 1986-88, and was mayor of Paris from
1977-1995.
According to the current president, Emmanuel Macron:
<QUOTE>"We are remembering tonight with emotion and
affection his freedom, his personality, the talent he had to
reconcile simplicity and grandeur, proximity and dignity, love of
the motherland and openness to the universal."<END QUOTE>
However, another French politician said anonymously: "People think
Chirac is a decent guy, but not very bright. In fact, he's exactly the
opposite."
In fact, Chirac was extremely controversial as president, although the
thing that he was most praised for was standing up to President George
Bush and refusing to join America and Britain in the 2003 war against
Saddam Hussein in Iraq. According to British journalist Sophie
Pedder:
<QUOTE>"Much to criticise about his time as French president
(twice), prime minister (twice) and Paris mayor. But Jacques
Chirac (1932-2019) was right on Iraq, prescient about
multi-polarity, brave to acknowledge France's responsibility under
Vichy--and an improbable icon of French cool
pic.twitter.com/KHkQE9gHaM"<END QUOTE>
Born in 1932, he was too young to fight in World War II, but later in
life he was praised for acknowledging France's collaboration with the
Nazis during the war, including the deportation of Jews from France to
Nazi concentration camps.
****
**** Jacques Chirac and Saddam Hussein's Oil-for-Food scam
****
As I recently described, the 2003 Iraq war occurred as the result of
panic in the West over weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), 58 years
after nuking of Japan in 1945 at the end of World War II. (See
discussion of 58-Year Hypothesis in "2-Sep-19 World View -- Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon border clash fizzles quickly, no repeat of 2006 war"
)
Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons against the Kurds and the
Iranians in 1988 at the end of the Iran/Iraq war, and had continued
developing chemical weapons during the 1990s. Saddam refused UN WMD
inspections under President Bill Clinton, and his response was to
order bombing campaigns on military targets in Iraq.
However, military action did not go farther than that until 2003, 58
years after the nuking of Japan, as the age cohort of people who were
children in 1945 suddenly became anxious that the WMDs would be used
again, causing a general panic. (58-Year Hypothesis) Saddam was
resolutely opposing UN inspections, and many people read this as a
sign of guilt.
Most countries were convinced that Saddam was still developing WMDs,
and many endorsed the British and American plan for a ground war in
Iraq. The two major exceptions were Russia and France. In the case
of Russia, it was thought that the reason was that the Russians still
hoped to collect the $10 billion that Iraq owed to Russia, mainly for
illegal arms deals.
Jacques Chirac was president of France at the time, and he announced
that he would veto any UN Security Council resolution authorizing the
military action. That's why so much of the mainstream media is
heaping praise on Chirac.
Chirac insisted that his opposition to the Iraq war was principled,
but an investigation revealed that Chirac and his family and some of
his ministers were deeply implicated in a lucrative scam to divert
millions of dollars of profits of the UN's oil-for-food program into
their own private coffers.
So, in my opinion, Chirac does not deserve one bit of adulation he's
been receiving these last two days. He opposed the Iraq war, because
he didn't care how many people Saddam killed with WMDs, but he wanted
to keep the fraudulent millions pouring into his coffers.
Chirac was formally charged in 2007 after he left office as president,
losing immunity from prosecution. In 2011, he was found guilty of
misuse of public money, breach of trust and illegal conflict of
interest while he was mayor of Paris, and given a two-year suspended
jail sentence.
Sources:
- Iraq / Ex-French President Chirac, who stood up to US, dies at 86 (ABCNews/AP, 26-Sep-2018)
- Press review Jacques Chirac (RFI-fr, 26-Sep-2019)
- Former French president Jacques Chirac dies aged 86 (RFI-fr, 26-Sep-2019)
- Iraq / Oil for Food / The Chirac Doctrine (MiddleEastForum(Fall,2005):
- Iraq / France / Jacques Chirac / The sordid truth about the oil-for-food scandal (Telegraph, 10-Oct-2004)
- Iraq / Oil for Food / Jacques Chirac / Lawmaker Wants French to Answer Bribe Charges (FoxNews, 14-Jan-2015)
- Oil for food II: several French companies sentenced to light sentences (LeMonde, translation, 15-Feb-2019)
Related Articles:
- Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon border clash fizzles quickly, no repeat of 2006 war (02-Sep-2019)
- Fourteen companies in France on trial over Iraq war oil-for-food corruption (22-Nov-2018)
- Generational Dynamics historical analysis of the violence in Iraq (18-Jun-2014)
- The Iraq war may be related to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (17-Feb-2008)
- How Israel panicked in pursuing the summer Lebanon war with Hezbollah (23-Dec-2006)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, France, Jacques Chirac,
Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Oil-For-Food, Russia
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