This is interesting.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4100695/
Quote:
One man on this list is the head of a French-Iraqi friendship association, a middleman between French companies and Iraq since the mid-1980s.
Did he take the money? Yes, he tells NBC News. But he says they were the kinds of kickbacks or commission routinely paid in international commerce. He says the money went to the companies he helped and they, not Saddam, paid him.
Did he take the money? Yes, he tells NBC News. But he says they were the kinds of kickbacks or commission routinely paid in international commerce. He says the money went to the companies he helped and they, not Saddam, paid him.
Think this had anything to do with them being opposed to the war?