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●先ほど投稿した下記の記事
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米国大衆メディアが企て始めた「独仏イタチ枢軸」というデマゴギー
http://www.asyura.com/2003/war24/msg/560.html
WA24 560 2003/2/22 02:10:11
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のなかで、シオニスト勢力がことさらに「仏独イタチ枢軸」をデッチ上げた
がっているようだ、としてきました。シオニスト勢力は、アリエル・シャロンの
82年サブラ／シャティーラ難民キャンプ大虐殺事件の戦争犯罪追及を決めた
ベルギーの動向に恐怖を感じており、欧州の分断を画策してまたもや
「ナチス呼ばわり」という手垢の付いた策略を巡らしている様子。
そのあたりの動向は、下記のサイトをみれば知ることができるでしょう。
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●ところで、「イタチの枢軸（Axis of Weasels）」という国家“ヘイト
クライム”扇動用のデマ概念は、イスラエル国家犯罪を擁護する
シオニストのサイトが必死に宣伝しているようです。
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IF IT WASN'T FOR US, THE FRENCH WOULD BE SPEAKING GERMAN
http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/france.html
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● ……で、上記の http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/france.html
を見ていましたら、下記のような記事へのリンクが貼ってありました。
独仏を「イタチ枢軸」呼ばわりした『ニューヨークポスト』の蛮勇を
絶賛しています。ところで『ニューヨークポスト』というのは
どういう新聞なんでしょうか？
たとえば「The New York Post and the Right Wing Conspiracy」
（http://www.ishipress.com/rancor.htm）などを見ると分かるように、
これも“メディア王”ルパート・マードックの所有物なのですね。
……で、そのマードックは「最強のシオニスト」などと言われてもいる。
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http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/2/14/95132
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
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Friday, Feb. 14, 2003
Why the 'Axis of Weasel' Backs Saddam
The New York Post does not take kindly to the cowardly failure of France, Germany and Belgium to protect Turkey from genocidal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The Post is not afraid of exposing these nations' strong economic and military ties to Saddam's regime. （http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/2/10/91042.shtml）
The Post is not afraid of mocking what it has dubbed the "Axis of Weasel."
"Weasel so-called allies France and Germany will hear fresh evidence today of Iraqi stonewalling, at an 11th-hour showdown with the United States in the U.N. Security Council," the Post writes in a cover story delightfully illustrated with a picture of taxpayer-supported U.N. drones at their desks. Through the magic of photo retouching, the German and French delegates now have the heads of weasels.
"Weasels to hear new Iraq evidence," says the headline. Even the jump page gets into the act: "See WEASELS Page 6." And then there's the inside headline: "It's showdown time at U.N. as Powell takes on Euro-weasels."
We expect that four-legged weasels everywhere will protest this unflattering comparison.
●●What Are Berlin and Paris Afraid Of?
"Everyone knows that France has massive investments in Iraq (and has made a fortune out of the U.N. oil-for-food program). Everyone knows that it is worried that a successor regime might not honor contracts made by Saddam," the Post notes in an editorial today.
"But according to a dossier obtained by a German newspaper, German companies have been Iraq's biggest supplier of modern weapons and dual-use technology and have been flouting U.N. sanctions for years - all while Berlin has turned a blind eye.
"Given the pacifist claims of German premier Gerhard Schroeder, and given Germany's own history of using poison gas against civilians, the confirmation of these reports would be devastating, to put it mildly."
Is it any wonder that even Left Coast Democrats in Congress consider Germany, France and wee little Belgium "beneath contempt"? （http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/2/12/120306）
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●Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Saddam Hussein/Iraq
http://www.newsmax.com/hottopics/Saddam_Hussein!Iraq.shtml
United Nations
http://www.newsmax.com/hottopics/United_Nations.shtml
Editor's note:
Leftists・attacks on America - in their own words!
http://www.newsmax.com/jump/suggestions/you_dont_say.htm
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● ……というわけで、オーストラリア人のマードックが英国に所有している
衆愚扇動メディアが『ザ・サン』なのですが、これが大西洋の彼方の
『ニューヨークポスト』と同期するかたちで「シラクは蛆虫」キャンペーンを
よりによってフランス現地で行ないました。下記の記事では「シラクを
虫けら(ミミズ)と批判する」云々と書かれていますが、『ザ・サン』特別版は
フランス語で書かれており、その見出しは「CHIRAC EST UN VER」です。
（表紙の写真：http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2003080743,00.jpg ）
「ver」というのは線虫のような“ちっぽけな虫けら”を意味する言葉で、
大雑把にいうと「うじむし」という語感があります。
「ver de soie」（絹のうじむし）はカイコを意味しますし、「ver de terre」
（大地のうじむし）はミミズを意味する、といった具合です。
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http://www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/search-news/871545/83V838983N-0
-2.html
英国紙：仏大統領は「虫けら」 対イラク攻撃反対で批判
2003.02.21
【パリ大木俊治】英国の大衆紙 「サン」が２０日、米英の対イラク攻撃に反対するシラク仏大統領を「ミミズ（虫けら）」と批判 するフランス 語の特別版をパリで発行した。同紙パリ支局が数百部だけ発行した限定版で、表紙にはミミズの体とシラク大統領の顔を合成した写真を掲載している。
また同大統領を「国際社会でごう慢な態度を示すのは、自分の国を実際以上に重要な存在と見せかけるため」と糾弾。過去２回の世界大戦で「米英の兵士がフランスのために払った犠牲を忘れて米国民を見下している」と批判し た。
同紙は対イラク攻撃支持の態度を鮮明にしており、記事の中でフランスの読者に「あなたたちは自分たちの大統領を恥ずかしいと思わないか」と挑発している。
［毎日新聞２月２１日］ ( 2003-02-21-09:45 )
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●わざわざパリで挑発的にばらまかれた『ザ・サン』特別版の内容については
下記に原文記事を紹介しましたが、そこに使われている写真は阿修羅サイトに
上げておきました。
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【1】３月21日にパリで配布された『ザ・サン』フランス限定版の表紙
（蛆虫シラクのアイコラ）
http://www.asyura.com/2003/up1/source/046.jpg
【2】３月22日「ザ・サン」ウェブサイトのシラク蛆虫アイコラ写真
http://www.asyura.com/2003/up1/source/047.gif
【3】「The Sunシラクは蛆虫だ」をパリの街頭で読むヤラセ写真
http://www.asyura.com/2003/up1/source/048.jpg
【4】シャンゼリゼで『ザ・サン』特別版を読みふけるパリジャン
（ミエミエのやらせ写真）
http://www.asyura.com/2003/up1/source/049.jpg
【5】パリのメトロの駅前で『ザ・サン』を読んで真実を知るパリジャン
（やらせ全開！）
http://www.asyura.com/2003/up1/source/050.jpg
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●上記の写真を見ると少なくとも２つの興味深い事実を指摘する
ことができます。
１．まず、『ニューヨークポスト』では“イタチ”のアイコラだったが、
『ザ・サン』はわざわざパリに行って、シラク大統領とミミズのような
気持ちの悪い“うじむし”を合成したアイコラ写真を使っている。
（ブッシュを猿に見立てるたぐいの揶揄よりも、悪質な扇動です。
これは結果的にはフランスの反イギリス感情をいたずらに煽ることに
なると思いますが、そういう挑発をなぜ行なうのか意味深長……。）
２．【3】〜【5】の写真は、かつて社会主義やファシズムの宣伝媒体が
常用していた「見よ！ ここでも我が労働者が××新聞を読んでいる！」
などという宣伝のスタイルとまるっきり同じ。（笑）
●下記に、記録のためにこの『ザ・サン』の記事を再録しておきます。
（訳文は省略しますので、読み飛ばして下さい。）
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003081198,00.html
Squirm, worm!
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Zut alors! ... The Sun's Paris edition
（『ザ・サン』パリ特別版の表紙）
写真：http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2003080743,00.jpg
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THE Sun handed out a special edition of the paper on the streets of Paris yesterday.
In it we asked the French people if they were ashamed of their spineless President, Jacques 'Le Worm' Chirac.
Below is the front page message and translation with reactions at the bottom of the page.
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THE SUN, journal lu quotidiennement par dix millions de personnes, presente ses salutations aux parisiens.
Nous pensons qu'en menacant constamment de recourir a son droit de veto pour empecher toute action militaire destinee a faire appliquer la volonte des Nations Unies en Irak, votre president, Jacques Chirac, est devenu la honte de l'Europe.
Nous pensons que cette attitude est d'autant plus hypocrite que tout le monde sait qu'au bout du compte, le president Chirac apportera finalement son soutien a l'ONU, aux Etats-Unis et a la Grande Bretagne.
Les citoyens du Royaume-Uni estiment que M. Chirac, qui au Royaume-Uni est surnomme le “Ver”, se pavane avec arrogance sur la scene internationale avec pour seul objectif de donner a son pays une importance demesuree par rapport a la realite.
La verite c'est que le monde entier, y compris la France, sait qu'il faut regler le probleme Saddam Hussein.
Mais seul le President francais semble decide a faire obstacle a la volonte de la communaute internationale.
Lorsque Saddam Hussein aura disparu, les britanniques et les autres europeens se tourneront vers la France et se poseront la question de savoir si ce pays est encore un allie.
Les peuples se demanderont si ce que dit la France par l'intermediaire de ses dirigeants a encore la moindre valeur.
Nous, britanniques, pensons egalement que vous, francais, avez oublie ce que vous devez aux autres nations, et en particulier aux Etats-Unis et a la Grande Bretagne, qui sont venues a votre secours lors des deux guerres mondiales.
Vous n'etiez que trop heureux d'accueillir les americains lorsque la France etait ecrasee sous la botte hitlerienne.
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ここに“クビから上がシラクで、クビから下は蛆虫”の写真が
載っている：http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2003080422,00.gif
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Mais aujourd'hui vous meprisez le peuple americain et son president, et vous oubliez combien de soldats, de marins et de pilotes, americains et britanniques, ont donne leur vie, ainsi qu'en temoignent les cimetieres militaires de France, pour la liberation de ce pays.
Aujourd'hui, les americains, soutenus en cela par d'autres nations europeennes plus courageuses que la France, se preparent a debarrasser le monde d'un autre tyran.
Au nom de nos dix millions de lecteurs, nous vous posons aujourd'hui cette question:
N'avez-vous pas honte de votre President?
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【この『ザ・サン』パリ特別版のフランス語記事の英訳文】
Greetings to the citizens of Paris from The Sun newspaper, which is read by ten million people every day.
We think your President, Jacques Chirac, is a disgrace to Europe by constantly threatening to veto military action to enforce the will of the United Nations against Iraq.
We think it is all the more hypocritical because the world knows that eventually President Chirac will agree to support the UN, America and Great Britain.
British people feel M Chirac, who in the UK is nicknamed the 'worm', is arrogantly strutting about trying to make France seem more important in the world than it really is.
The truth is that all the world - including France - recognises that Saddam Hussein must be dealt with. But only the French President seems determined to frustrate the will of the international community.
When Saddam Hussein has gone, people in Britain and the rest of Europe will look at France and ask themselves whether France is much of an ally any more. People will ask themselves why anyone should bother with what France and its leader say.
We also think in Britain that you in France have forgotten how much you owe to other nations, particularly America and Britain, for coming to your aid in two world wars.
You were glad enough to welcome the Americans when Hitler ruled France.
But now you sneer at the American people and their president, and forget how the war cemeteries of France are packed with American and British soldiers and sailors and airmen who laid down their lives so France could be free.
Today, the Americans - backed by other European nations braver than France - are preparing again to rid the world of a tyrant.
On behalf of our ten million readers, we say to you today:
Are you not ashamed of your president?
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●●The Sun prints a paper in French to shame wriggly wobbler Chirac
Triumph ... Parisians were eager
to read copies of the special Sun
From MEL HUNTER and
SALLY BROOK in Paris
SACRE bleu -- Le Worm is really squirming.
French President Jacques Chirac was outraged yesterday after we told his people what we thought of his wobbly policy on a war against Iraq.
We delivered a special edition of The Sun, translated into French, to the streets of Paris.
The front page headline declared: CHIRAC EST UN VER (Chirac Is A Worm). It was alongside a huge picture depicting Chirac as one of the wriggly creatures boring his way out of a map of France.
The story blasted Chirac trying to block an attack on Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
We told our Gallic readers: “We think your president, Jacques Chirac, is a disgrace to Europe by constantly threatening to veto military action to enforce the will of the United Nations in Iraq.”
And we lambasted Chirac for apparently forgetting it was American and British help that saved his country in World War Two.
Our tirade prompted howls of protest from the French government and media. Even Cabinet ministers were called on to defend their leader.
But Chirac did not answer our criticisms himself ? because he was too busy having cosy chats with another despicable dictator, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe.
Instead, his spokeswoman Catherine Colonna said: “Insults often say more about the people who make them than about those they claim to describe.”
Culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon waded in by saying: “It's aggressive, very disagreeable, pretty vulgar and shows contempt for our country. I'd say they've been very badly brought up.”
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写真キャプション
Message ... our attack made
gripping reading in the Champs Elysees
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And transport supremo Gilles de Robien, said: “It's disgusting.”
But many ordinary French men and women BACKED The Sun's assault on their government's apathy.
A member of the army, who asked to remain anonymous, emailed to say:
French people have bravery, but not our government. I'm French, I'm a soldier, so I can't give you my name, but I want to say to you about my people.
Our nations have had a lot of differences and wars in past, but since the first great war, we are allies and friends.
It's unforgivable for our president to ignore your soldiers' sacrifice and I want to say my sympathy to your brave country.
The others soldiers like me want to fight this tyrant and kick him out.
Another 25-year-old Frenchman wrote: “I found your paper absolutely fabulous. Chirac is a worm and an idiot.
“Yes, Chirac is the shame of our country. He is ridiculous.
“I just want to tell you and all your readers I have never forgotten American or British soldiers for their help and courage in the Second World War. I'm proud of them.
“Don't judge all French as if they are the worm people.”
A German in Paris also applauded our stand.
He said: “Congratulations on the Chirac coup. Why don't you do the same thing on the German Chancellor Schroeder. Many Germans are ashamed and disgusted.”
International media, from the BBC to the Wall Street Journal, rushed to cover the fuss sparked by the special Sun.
A branch of WH Smith in Paris was inundated with calls from people wanting to reserve copies.
And Radio Monte Carlo was flooded by callers to its current affairs phone-in programme Controverse which featured our attack.
Listeners rang from all parts of France, as well as Belgium, Germany and Monaco.
Student Alex Akhavi, 23, agreed that war against Iraq was necessary if there was proof Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
However, he admired Chirac's willpower and said: “If he follows it through I think it will be very courageous.
“I am not sure we need to go to war because of an argument about oil.”
Referring to the special Sun, he admitted: “It is well known that the French lack a sense of humour and can't laugh at each other let alone have someone else laugh at them. If there is one good thing that has come out of this front page it is that the English know how to have a joke.”
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写真キャプション
Keeping up ... French reader gets
blunt truth from The Sun yesterday
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The switchboard at our HQ in Wapping, East London, was jammed with calls from the Continent.
We also received thousands of emails from as far away as Mexico, the US, Germany and, of course, France. A huge number supported The Sun.
Pierre Rene wrote: “I applaud your courage to ridicule that chicken sh** of Chirac. I knew he was a pompous twit when I had the opportunity of meeting him in person in Colorado a few years back.”
“As a Frenchman married to an American, I understood 20 years ago that France was not what it used to be any more and left.
“I have since seen France sink in it own contradictions. I am fed up so much with their ineptitude that their opposition to an intervention in Iraq was the last straw.
“I have decided to burn my passport in public and give up my French citizenship altogether.”
Bruno Giard's message said: “I would like to compliment you for saying what a lot of French people already think about our president.”
And a man called Guillaume said: “I'm French and I can't say that I disagree with your vision about the French president.”
Not all of the emails were complimentary, though.
One anonymous dissenter wrote with typical French eloquence: “F*** you and f*** the English people. You can go kiss Bush ? he loves it.
Another said: “I am French. You are lackeys of American imperialism.”
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10 dirty deals that France has done to aid Saddam
TWO-faced Jacques Chirac has cosied up to evil Saddam Hussein for 30 years. Here are ten links between France and Iraq that have helped the tyrant remain in power.
●1 The French President first met Saddam in 1972 when the pair struck a lucrative oil deal. Chirac described Saddam then as a “personal friend” and little appears to have changed. Chirac is the only Western head of state to know Saddam personally.
●2 France has sold the tyrant arms worth £15billion, more than even the Soviets at the height of the Cold War.
●3 They have also built two nuclear reactors near Baghdad.
●4 Saddam was close to getting an A-bomb before Israeli jets blitzed his facilities in 1981 in a raid condemned by Chirac as “unacceptable”. Without Israel's hardline act, Saddam could have held the world to ransom with nuclear arms.
●5 Chirac is so keen to build on relations with Saddam he has his own special envoy in Baghdad who is so trusted he is even allowed to sit in on Iraqi Cabinet meetings.
●6 Despite world opinion, the men have continued to cut deals. Chirac encouraged French firms to help re-arm Iraq after its war with Iran in the 1980s. French companies sold Baghdad warplanes armed with Exocet missiles.
●7 Chirac was so keen to help his old pal he even extended him credit when Iraq failed to meet the repayments. France also sold Iraq equipment to improve the accuracy and range of Scud missiles.
●8 Despite tough UN trade sanctions, French firms hold massive oil contracts with Iraq. And there are many more in the pipeline ? even in the aftermath of a second Gulf War, Chirac has told energy bosses.
●9 Time and time again France has turned a blind eye to Iraq's abuses when they have been exposed by the UN Security Council. It comes as no surprise to diplomats that French firms keep on landing lucrative deals.
●10 World leaders were horrified after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 but France again helped Saddam. Under pressure from Chirac, then President Francois Mitterrand sent emissaries to 24 countries assuring them France would only participate in the war as a “defensive” measure.
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● ……さて、以上のように、シオニストのメディア王ルパート・マードック
のメディアは、独仏を「イタチ（裏切り者）の枢軸」呼ばわりして孤立に
追い込み、特にシラク大統領を個人攻撃するというデマ宣伝を積極的に
開始した模様ですが、興味深いことに、これとタイミングを合わせる形で
テキサスの本拠を置く世界的な諜報シンクタンク企業ストラトフォー社が、
「シラク／フセイン悪の枢軸」の宣伝を始めています。
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Stratfor社が先日流した“シラク／フセイン悪の枢軸”説
http://www.stratfor.com/promo/Story.neo?site=usiraq&s=210275&promo=1
The Chirac-Hussein Connection
Feb 19, 2003
●●Summary
French President Jacques Chirac is a pivotal figure on the international scene, whose views on Iraq are of vital concern. Those views are not driven simply by geopolitics, however. The factors that shape his thinking include a long, complex and sometimes mysterious relationship with Saddam Hussein. The relationship is not secret, but it is no longer as well known as it once was -- nor is it well known outside of France. It is not insignificant in understanding Chirac's view of Iraq.
●●Analysis
In attempting to understand France's behavior over the issue of war with Iraq, there is little question but that strategic, economic and geopolitical considerations are dominant drivers. However, in order to understand the details of French behavior, it is also important to understand a not really unknown but oddly neglected aspect of French policy: the personal relationship between French President Jacques Chirac and Saddam Hussein.
The relationship dates back to late 1974, when then-French Premier Chirac traveled to Baghdad and met the No. 2 man in the Iraqi government, Vice President Saddam Hussein. During that visit, Chirac and Hussein conducted negotiations on a range of issues, the most important of these being Iraq's purchase of nuclear reactors.
In September 1975, Hussein traveled to Paris, where Chirac personally gave him a tour of a French nuclear plant. During that visit, Chirac said, "Iraq is in the process of beginning a coherent nuclear program and France wants to associate herself with that effort in the field of reactors." France sold two reactors to Iraq, with the agreement signed during Hussein's visit. The Iraqis purchased a 70-megawatt reactor, along with six charges of 26 points of uranium enriched to 93 percent -- in other words, enough weapons-grade uranium to produce three to four nuclear devices. Baghdad also purchased a one-megawatt research reactor, and France agreed to train 600 Iraqi nuclear technicians and scientists -- the core of Iraq's nuclear capability today.
Other dimensions of the relationship were decided on during this visit and implemented in the months afterward. France agreed to sell Iraq $1.5 billion worth of weapons -- including the integrated air defense system that was destroyed by the United States in 1991, about 60 Mirage F1 fighter planes, surface-to-air missiles and advanced electronics. The Iraqis, for their part, agreed to sell France $70 million worth of oil.
During this period, Chirac and Hussein formed what Chirac called a close personal relationship. As the New York Times put it in a 1986 report about Chirac's attempt to return to the premiership, the French official "has said many times that he is a personal friend of Saddam Hussein of Iraq." In 1987, the Manchester Guardian Weekly quoted Chirac as saying that he was "truly fascinated by Saddam Hussein since 1974." Whatever personal chemistry there might have been between the two leaders obviously remained in place a decade later, and clearly was not simply linked to the deals of 1974-75. Politicians and businessmen move on; they don't linger the way Chirac did.
Partly because of the breadth of the relationship Chirac and Hussein had created in a relatively short period of time and the obvious warmth of their personal ties, there was intense speculation about the less visible aspects of the relationship. For example, one unsubstantiated rumor that still can be heard in places like Beirut was that Hussein helped to finance Chirac's run for mayor of Paris in 1977, after he lost the French premiership. Another, equally unsubstantiated rumor was that Hussein had skimmed funds from the huge amounts of money that were being moved around, and that he did so with Chirac's full knowledge. There are endless rumors, all unproven and perhaps all scurrilous, about the relationship. Some of these might have been moved by malice, but they also are powered by the unfathomability of the relationship and by Chirac's willingness to publicly affirm it. It reached the point that Iranians referred to Chirac as "Shah-Iraq" and Israelis spoke of the Osirak reactor as "O-Chirac."
Indeed, as recently as last week, a Stratfor source in Lebanon reasserted these claims as if they were incontestable. Innuendo has become reality.
Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who held office at the time of the negotiations with Iraq, said in 1984 that the deal "came out of an agreement that was not negotiated in Paris and therefore did not originate with the president of the republic." Under the odd French constitution, it is conceivable that the president of the republic wouldn't know what the premier of France had negotiated -- but on a deal of this scale, this would be unlikely, unless the deal in fact had been negotiated between Chirac and Hussein in the dark and presented as a fait accompli.
There is some evidence for this notion. Earlier, when Giscard d'Estaing found out about the deal -- and particularly about the sale of 93 percent uranium -- he had ordered the French nuclear research facility at Saclay to develop an alternative that would take care of Iraq's legitimate needs, but without supplying weapons-grade uranium. The product, called "caramel," was only 3 percent enriched but entirely suitable to non-weapons needs. The French made the offer, which Iraq declined.
By 1986, Chirac clearly had decided to change his image. In preparation for the 1988 presidential elections, Chirac let it be known that he never had anything to do with the sale of the Osirak reactor. In an interview with an Israeli newspaper, he said, "It wasn't me who negotiated the construction of Osirak with Baghdad. The negotiation was led by my minister of industry in very close collaboration with Giscard d'Estaing." He went on to say, "I never took part in these negotiations. I never discussed the subject with Saddam Hussein. The fact is that I did not find out about the affair until very late."
Obviously, Chirac was contradicting what he had said publicly in 1975. More to the point, he also was not making a great deal of sense in claiming that his minister of industry -- who at that time was Michel d'Ornano -- had negotiated a deal as large as this one. That is true even if one assumes the absurd, which was that the nuclear deal was a stand-alone and not linked to the arms and oil deals or to a broader strategic relationship. In fact, d'Ornano claimed that he didn't even make the trip to Iraq with Chirac in 1974, let alone act as the prime negotiator. Everything he did was in conjunction with Chirac.
In 1981, the Israelis destroyed the Iraqi reactor in an air attack. There were rumors -- which were denied -- that the French government was offering to rebuild the reactor. In August 1987, French satirical and muckraking magazine, "Le Canard Enchaine" published excerpts of a letter from Chirac to Hussein -- dated June 24, 1987, and hand-delivered by Trade Minister Michel Noir -- which the magazine claimed indicated that he was negotiating to rebuild the Iraqi reactor. The letter says nothing about nuclear reactors, but it does say that Chirac hopes for an agreement "on the negotiation which you know about," and it speaks of the "cooperation launched more than 12 years ago under our personal joint initiative, in this capital district for the sovereignty, independence and security of your country." In the letter, Chirac also, once again, referred to Hussein as "my dear friend."
Chirac and the government confirmed that the letter was genuine. They denied that it referred to rebuilding a nuclear reactor. The letter speaks merely of the agreements relating to "an essential chapter in Franco-Iraqi relations, both in the present circumstances and in the future." Chirac claimed that any attempt to link the letter to the reconstruction of the nuclear facility was a "ridiculous invention." Assuming Chirac's sincerity, this leaves open the question of what the "essential chapter" refers to and why, instead of specifying the subject, Chirac resorted to a circumlocution like "negotiation which you know about."
Only two possible conclusions can be drawn from this letter: Chirac either was trying, in the midst of the Iran-Iraq war and after his denial of involvement in the first place, to rebuild Iraq's nuclear capability, or he wasn't. And if he wasn't, what was he doing that required such complex language, clearly intended for deniability if revealed? No ordinary state-to-state relationship would require a combination of affection, recollection of long history and promise for the future without mentioning the subject. If we concede to Chirac that it had nothing to do with nuclear reactors, then the mystery actually deepens.
It is unfair to tag Chirac with the rumors that have trailed him in his relations with Hussein. It is fair to say, however, that Chirac has created a circumstance for breeding rumors. The issues raised here were all well known at one time and place. When they are laid end-to-end, a mystery arises. What affair was being discussed in the letter delivered by Michel Noir? If not nuclear reactors, then what was referenced but never mentioned specifically in Chirac's letter to his "dear friend" Hussein?
Whatever the answer, it is clear that the relationship between Chirac and Hussein is long and complex, and not altogether easy to understand. That relationship does not, by itself, explain all of France's policies toward Iraq or its stance toward a war between the United States and Iraq. But at the same time, it is inconceivable that this relationship has no effect on Chirac's personal decision-making process. There is an intensity to Chirac's Iraq policy that may simply signify the remnants of an old, warm friendship gone bad, or that may have a different origin. In any case, it is a reality that cannot be ignored and that must be taken into account in understanding the French leader's behavior.
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