If you had it to do over again, what would you rather have opened, Iraq, or "Pandora's Box" ?

Question

Comment on how France and Germany earned the right to say, "We told you so!" (if you so choose).

Answer 1

there pretty much the same thing at this point

Answer 2

Since there is oil in Iraq and not in Pandora's Box, I think I'd go back to Iraq again to get the oil reserves. He that controls the oil in that region controls the world. That is the region of the world where most of our oil comes from.

I am sure that France and Germany have told you so many times now. I don't see any of their troops there. This may be the beginning of WWIII or the end of the world. Either case it is going to be interesting to see how it plays out.

Answer 3

Americans wanted to destroy after 9/11. They picked the wrong country and didn't listen to anyone. They didn't know that the President had designs only on oil. The only country truly involved in conditioning the WTC attackers was Saudi Arabia, but Bush has too many friends there. (Remember he was holding the hand of one of the Princes? Remember he let the bin Laden's fly out of American airspace when no other airline could fly?) What was that all about?

Answer 4

It would be easier to get all the kings men and all the kings horses (all Iraqi of course) to put Humpty Dumpty together again (I mean Iraq after it's been so screwed up. open the link, check out the question and open the links:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjrvUMkMeFklb8WdiNBNppLsy6IX?qid=20061017201015AAlaYas

Answer 5

at least the last thing at the very bottom of Pandora's Box was HOPE, which is sadly lacking in this debacle in Iraq

Answer 6

There were many many people warned this administration that they did not know what they were getting into. All warnings were ignored and now it is pretended that no warnings were given.

Answer 7

I would fight the war in Iraq to win. I would blow up schools, mosques, and hospitals if terrorists were hiding there. We are too nice in Iraq.

Answer 8

iraq. germany and france can say what they want they were trading military secrets with saddam. all they wanted to do was clear their tracks before anybody found out. too late for that. their views on iraq are not stopping them from cashing in on contracts for major companys check out france and germany's i told you so.
France
France controls over 22.5 percent of Iraq's imports.[1] French total trade with Iraq under the oil-for-food program is the third largest, totaling $3.1 billion since 1996, according to the United Nations.[2]
In 2001 France became Iraq's largest European trading partner. Roughly 60 French companies did an estimated $1.5 billion in trade with Baghdad in 2001 under the U.N. oil-for-food program.[3]
France's largest oil company, Total Fina Elf, has negotiated extensive oil contracts to develop the Majnoon and Nahr Umar oil fields in southern Iraq. Both the Majnoon and Nahr Umar fields are estimated to contain as much as 25 percent of the country's oil reserves. The two fields purportedly contain an estimated 26 billion barrels of oil.[4] In 2002, the non-war price per barrel of oil was $25. Based on that average these two fields have the potential to provide a gross return near $650 billion.
France's Alcatel company, a major telecom firm, is negotiating a $76 million contract to rehabilitate Iraq's telephone system.[5]
In 2001 French carmaker Renault SA sold $75 million worth of farming equipment to Iraq.[6]
More objections have been lodged against French export contracts with Iraq than any other exporting country under the oil-for-food program, according to a report published by the London Times. In addition French companies have signed contracts with Iraq worth more than $150 million that are suspected of being linked to its military operations.[7] Some of the goods offered by French companies to Iraq, detailed by UN documents, include refrigerated trucks that can be used as storage facilities and mobile laboratories for biological weapons.
Iraq owes France an estimated $6 billion in foreign debt accrued from arms sales in the 1970s and '80s.[8]
From 1981 to 2001, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), France was responsible for over 13 percent of Iraq's arms imports.[9]
Germany
Direct trade between Germany and Iraq amounts to about $350 million annually, and another $1 billion is reportedly sold through third parties.[10]
It has recently been reported that Saddam Hussein has ordered Iraqi domestic businesses to show preference to German companies as a reward for Germany's "firm positive stand in rejecting the launching of a military attack against Iraq." It was also reported that over 101 German companies were present at the Baghdad Annual exposition.[11]
During the 35th Annual Baghdad International Fair in November 2002, a German company signed a contract for $80 million for 5,000 cars and spare parts.[12]
In 2002, DaimlerChrysler was awarded over $13 million in contracts for German trucks and spare parts.[13]
Germany is owed billions by Iraq in foreign debt generated during the 1980's.[14]
German officials are investigating a German corporation accused of illegally channeling weapons to Iraq via Jordan. The equipment in question is used for boring the barrels of large cannons and is allegedly intended for Saddam Hussein's Al Fao Supercannon project.[15] An article in the German daily Tageszeitung reported that of the more than 80 German companies that have done business with Baghdad since around 1975 and have continued to do so up until 2001, many have supplied whole systems or components for weapons of mass destruction.

they were in it for the money against UN recomendations. it's all about the money they can say what they want they are just as responsible for all.