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The Oil related Anti-War effort...
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The glorious Iraqi government has recently signed contracts with three oil companies to exploit their oil reserves.
The companies are:
LUC (?) - a Russian Company
CNPC - owned by the Chinese
Total Fina Elf - a French company.
By a strange quirk of coincidence, the three permanent members of the Security Council who oppose the forcoming war are....
Well, see if you can work it out for yourselves.
The companies are:
LUC (?) - a Russian Company
CNPC - owned by the Chinese
Total Fina Elf - a French company.
By a strange quirk of coincidence, the three permanent members of the Security Council who oppose the forcoming war are....
Well, see if you can work it out for yourselves.
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:banghead:
But thanks for the idea.
I'm now going to arrange a mass boycott of Total, Elf and Fina garages locally in protest at their support for Saddam's regime and their lack of support for armed action...
You've got to admit, that with some posters this is the ideal smiley.
Which is what is continually being said. The left claim that the only reason the US wants war is so that they control the oil supplies.
Hence this post... gives a little perspective.
Makes you wonder, though, why there isn't a campaign to boycott Total etc when they have signed trade agreements with Saddam. Surely even the left cannot condone this. Yet we hear no outpourings from anyone about this.
Now, if it had been a US company...