|  |  | Q Who is getting 38% of the $18.6bn? 
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| (...) What ever happened to free trade? What ever happened to freedom of speech? For once he does not have Blair's support: (URL) (...) On the "security interests" point, it's good to see that Saudi Arabian companies are in for a share: (URL) Who is (...)   (22 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate) 
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|  |  | Re: did you wave your little flag to make it go away? 
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| (...) War is hell, not civil disagreement. I do not the condone cold-blooded murder of innocent people, nor does the US military. They have their rules regarding such matters, and they will deal with it. JOHN    (22 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) 
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|  |  | No!  Say it ain't so!  No France or Germany allowed!! 
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| (URL) (CNN) -- The Pentagon will bar France, Germany and other countries that opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq from competing for $18.6 billion worth of contracts in the Mideast nation's reconstruction efforts " " "It is necessary for the protection (...)   (22 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate) 
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|  |  | Re: did you wave your little flag to make it go away? 
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| (...) None of that explains this quote: "Iraqi courts, because of an order issued by the US-led authority in Baghdad in June, are forbidden from hearing cases against American soldiers or any other foreign troops or foreign officials in Iraq." These (...)   (22 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: Those who cast the votes decide nothing. 
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| (...) The pope is a radical? The leader of the Roman Catholic church? Hmmm... I think you're confusing the 'religious radical right zealots' you hang around with with "the silent majority" Or confusing the 'obviously uninformed' wrt 'coalition of (...)   (22 years ago, 9-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate) 
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