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Jedi Marksman · 02-15-2003, 01:12 PM

[quote="Old Reliable":de2fb]you're fools then, we'd lose support from Europe, then who would we turn to? bush is digging us a hole[/quote:de2fb]

We don't need Europe's support. If you are talking from an economical perspective, they need American money(i.e. selling us their products)far more then we need to buy them. Germany is using the "dead clients don't pay" rationilization. Iraq still owes them millions of dollars. France. . .well, I'll be kind. France sold Iraq paraphernalia to build their first nuclear reactor, which the Isrealis destroyed with a surgical airstrike at Osirak in 1981, so the French are straddling the fence on this, like they have throughout history.

I think Bush will do what he needs to do. I think, if for nothing else, he will bide his time to let the Europeans be satisfied, as if they ever are.

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Jedi Marksman is Offline Senior Member Posts: 1,428 Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Everywhere and nowhere	02-15-2003, 01:12 PM [quote="Old Reliable":de2fb]you're fools then, we'd lose support from Europe, then who would we turn to? bush is digging us a hole[/quote:de2fb] We don't need Europe's support. If you are talking from an economical perspective, they need American money(i.e. selling us their products)far more then we need to buy them. Germany is using the "dead clients don't pay" rationilization. Iraq still owes them millions of dollars. France. . .well, I'll be kind. France sold Iraq paraphernalia to build their first nuclear reactor, which the Isrealis destroyed with a surgical airstrike at Osirak in 1981, so the French are straddling the fence on this, like they have throughout history. I think Bush will do what he needs to do. I think, if for nothing else, he will bide his time to let the Europeans be satisfied, as if they ever are.