The whole article managed to avoid a single reference to the fate of the French oil contracts after the US "liberates" Iraq. -- Michael Perelman
Yes I suppose that would have been too distastefully explicit in an article that was planted to suggest the possibility of an amiable compromise between the USA and France.
BTW I gather from the BBC that antipathy to the USA is in fashion in France and is widespread.
Chris Burford
London
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