Oil For Weapons Program/china Style

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Oil For Weapons Program/china Style; No Graft for UN this time
Tweet Topic Started: Feb 20 2006, 03:45 PM (113 Views)
cascade	Feb 20 2006, 03:45 PM Post #1
Lloyd...Michie,Tennesse Posts: 351 Group: Members Member #45 Joined: July 12, 2004	IMO, terror war or no, this deal would have gone through. http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/0...0493055554.html
	"[Do not] suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty [to publish] by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice." --John Adams


cruiser	Feb 20 2006, 04:40 PM Post #2
Member Posts: 950 Group: Members Member #141 Joined: January 2, 2005	Cascade, I think that you lost me, did I miss something? "Would" have gone through. It sounds like that they are just talking about it.
	Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)


cmoehle	Feb 20 2006, 04:44 PM Post #3
Chris - San Antonio TX Posts: 36,959 Group: Members Member #1 Joined: June 6, 2004	They signed the deal late 2004: China Rocks the Geopolitical Boat with Iran Oil Deal. Now they're working out the details. Why do you think or approach to Iran has been diplomatic. Rice is working hard on it.
	Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. --Barry Goldwater


cascade	Feb 20 2006, 05:03 PM Post #4
Lloyd...Michie,Tennesse Posts: 351 Group: Members Member #45 Joined: July 12, 2004	I believe Iran has complete contempt for any diplomacy going on around them. IMO, their only involvement in diplomacy, would be to stall it long enough to complete their goal, nuclear weapons. UN sanctions will not stop them with China as their supply source.
	"[Do not] suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty [to publish] by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice." --John Adams


cmoehle	Feb 20 2006, 06:00 PM Post #5
Chris - San Antonio TX Posts: 36,959 Group: Members Member #1 Joined: June 6, 2004	Indeed, they do, when it comes to the West, especially the US. Because they have diplomativ relations in the East, they can play us against each other. They did it before from Eisenhower to Reagan.
	Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. --Barry Goldwater


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