Related: Prop 102: Iraq and Government Lies
Yeah, as tough as it is to take, the MSM revision about how our allies were against us are.... lies?
Yeah, yeah, I share your frustration, readers. They lied about Iraq forever and never stopped.
"In Baghdad, Sarkozy works to restore French-Iraqi ties; Pledges to play role in economic development" by Robert H. Reid, Associated Press | February 11, 2009
BAGHDAD - President Nicolas Sarkozy paid the first visit to Iraq by a French head of state yesterday, smoothing over lingering resentment about France's opposition to the war and positioning his country to cash in on lucrative arms and oil deals.
Lies right out of the box, 'eh, MSM? (Sigh)
The visit, part of a Persian Gulf tour, took place as the Obama administration is preparing to draw down the 144,000-member US military force and signaled France's intention to play a diplomatic role in a region dominated by the United States.
"I want to underscore France's desire to participate in the economic development of Iraq, the rehabilitation of its infrastructures," Sarkozy told reporters after meeting Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. "Our collaboration has no limits."
The French leader, who met later with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, praised Iraq for dramatic improvements in security, including provincial elections held last month without major bloodshed. With signs of stability emerging, Sarkozy said France "wants to turn toward the future" as Iraq moves away from "the painful pages that it has been living through these past years."
He urged French companies to invest in Iraq and called on his fellow Europeans to follow the French lead. "We want to encourage all European countries to come," he said. "It is in Europe's interest to extend a hand here and to support the peace."
Sarkozy's predecessor, Jacques Chirac, spearheaded the international campaign against the US-led invasion in 2003, angering both the United States and Iraqi exiles who later rose to power after Saddam Hussein's Sunni-led regime collapsed. Many current Iraqi leaders, including Maliki, were unable to return to Iraq until the Americans and their allies toppled Hussein.
Nevertheless, Iraqi leaders appeared eager to forget the past and shore up their ties with a major European nation, easing their dependence on the United States. Maliki alluded to that yesterday when a reporter asked for his reaction to comments made last week by Vice President Joe Biden, who told House Democrats that the new administration would be "much more aggressive in forcing" the Iraqis to resolve their political problems.
"The time for announcements is over," he snapped. "The Iraqi government knows its responsibilities." Maliki also said the French would build a new embassy in Baghdad and open consulates in two Iraqi cities - Irbil in the north and Basra in the south.
As if the nation is going to be spit into thirds like the Zionist Master Plan calls for, huh?
"Soon a delegation of French companies will be visiting Iraq to discuss doing business in Iraq and not just in the areas of security and defense," Maliki told reporters, adding that Iraq's defense and oil ministers would visit France to discuss cooperation those fields. France has been working to increase its influence in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East since Sarkozy took office in May 2007.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who accompanied Sarkozy on yesterday's visit, had made two high-profile visits to Baghdad since 2007 and has assumed a major role in ensuring stability in Lebanon after the Hezbollah-Israel war of 2006.
Such moves have been a hallmark of French policy in the Middle East since France launched a major diplomatic effort after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, seeking to capitalize on Arab anger against the United States and Britain for supporting the Jewish state.
France developed extensive economic ties to Iraq in the early years of Hussein's regime, selling him millions of dollars worth of weapons during his eight-year war with Iran.
Yeah, the West had NO COMPLAINTS when he was MURDERING PERSIANS for us!!!!
The French helped the Iraqis build an experimental nuclear station near Baghdad, which was crippled by an Israeli airstrike in 1981.
No wonder France is insulted in our AmeriKan jewspapers.
Relations soured when the French joined the US-led coalition that drove Hussein's forces from Kuwait in 1991. Later, France campaigned strongly for the UN Security Council to ease international sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s.
Which never happened, of course.
--more--"
And France ain't the only ones looking to get back in:
"'Old Europe' reaches out to the new Iraq; Germany looks toward contracts; France urges peace" by Robert H. Reid, Associated Press | February 18, 2009
BAGHDAD - "Old Europe" is reaching out to the new Iraq.
Germany's foreign minister met yesterday with Iraqi leaders in the latest high-level visit by a major Western nation that refused to take part in the 2003 US-led invasion but is now looking for ties and lucrative contracts.
Yeah, their intelligence agents were just running around Baghdad and then handing over their work to the U.S.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the first German foreign minister to come to Iraq in more than 20 years, arrived a week after Nicolas Sarkozy visited Baghdad, the French president calling on other European countries to follow his lead "to support the peace."
Iraqi leaders seem eager to cement their relations with Germany and France partly to avoid the appearance of being puppets of the United States - which at any rate is preparing to withdraw its troops, many of whom worked on infrastructure projects such as rebuilding bridges and roads....
Yeah, we are leaving and we rebuilt the place.
Sigh. So when are you going to STOP LYING, MSM?
As for the appearance of a puppet, image or not the only ones who DON'T KNOW THAT are the Amurkn people (because of scitte sheets like this one).
Those upbeat comments were a far cry from the acrimony of six years ago, when France and Germany spearheaded opposition to the invasion, dividing Europe and damaging relations between Washington and some of its closest European allies....
Yeah, SURE THEY DID!! That' your BACKGROUND and CONTEXTUAL PARAGRAPH from the LYING WAR DAILY!
Pfffffffttt!!!
Over the years, the rhetoric has cooled.
Yeah, shit fooleys will do that after they've been dumped.
New governments have taken power in France and Germany. And Iraq's leadership has gained new legitimacy with the decline in violence and recent provincial elections that took place without major attacks....
And because the lying Zionist AmeriKan MSM says it, it's true, right? Pffffffttt!
The United States has encouraged other countries to step up their efforts to help rebuild Iraq, as the US military role in this country winds down....
Ah, what's ONE MORE MSM LIE, huh, Amurkns?
See: Occupation Iraq: Another Broken Promise
Obama's administration is considering plans to accelerate the withdrawal to shift military resources to Afghanistan, where Al Qaeda and the resurgent Taliban are challenging the US-backed Afghan government.
For their part, the Germans hope to cash in on millions of dollars in lucrative contracts in a country with some of the world's largest petroleum reserves.
That's what ALL THIS is ABOUT!
Not peace and all that blather; it's about DOUGH($$$$$$$)!!!!!!!!
Steinmeier arrived with representatives of German companies and cultural institutions. The Germans hope to establish an economic office in Baghdad, with a branch in the northern city of Erbil, the capital of Iraq's self-governing Kurdish region.
"The office will contribute to reviving the once-intensive economic relations between Germany and Iraq," German Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said in a statement. "The office also will serve to . . . contribute to the country's economic rebuilding."
Strange how that kind of crap never really comes up between our "friends" of the "enemy," huh?
War is just a BIG RACKET, isn't it?
--more--"
