Jim Dixon <jdd@dixons.org> [2003-12-18/19:18]:
19% by value were from France; 57% from the Soviet Union (ie Russia), East Germany, and Czechoslovakia; 8% from China. [...] It is not coincidental that the Security Council members opposed to taking any action on Iraq's repeated violations were France, Russia, Germany, and China: Iraq's weapons suppliers.
You are confusing todays Germany with the communist pre-1989 Eastern Germany, two *very* different things (I thought the British had better knowledge of the "Olde Europe" than the fellow Americans do?) As to the rest, always look at who published the "facts". It's the same sources that claimed the Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. It's unfortunate that most people fall for this kind of manipulative misinformation. Cheers, Dan -- Daniel Roethlisberger <daniel@roe.ch> OpenPGP key id 0x804A06B1 (1024/4096 DSA/ElGamal) 144D 6A5E 0C88 E5D7 0775 FCFD 3974 0E98 804A 06B1 !-> [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]