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The plot thickens: Web of connections cast Chretien's strange Iraq stance in new light (PAUL JACKSON, April 6, 2003 , Calgary Sun)

"Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can't rewrite history."
-- Jean Chretien Le Monde, Dec. 1, 1994

Well, doesn't that give us some insight into the mind and machinations of one Prime Minister Jean Chretien.

But, as we look at how Chretien has snubbed our American neighbours at a time when they need our support most, maybe Chretien is trying to rewrite history.

Perhaps he's pretending he really is a man of some consequence in the world, and part of his gameplan to show that is to stick Americans in the eyes. For, in another part of that incredible interview he gave to the prestigious Paris newspaper Le Monde, Chretien talked about how French-Canadians had been "humiliated" by the English and how today they see themselves as "martyrs."

Then he boasted about how he was getting his own back on the supposed English establishment and power base. [...]

Chretien is something of a little man but, by God, the Americans aren't going to tell him what to do. He's running this country and he's going to do exactly what he wants to do.

That's even if, by undermining our largest trading partner and they decide to retaliate, he has to take this country with him.

He's standing with his partner in perfidy, one Jacques Chirac, president of France, who just may turn out to be a bigger villain than most of us already think he is. [...]

There may be yet another aspect to Chretien's strange behaviour. National Post columnist Diane Francis, who, in another era was one of the Calgary Sun's most popular columnists, recently wrote Chretien had become a "dupe" of Jacques Chirac, and that Chirac was in the pocket of Saddam Hussein because France's largest corporation, TotalFinaElf has huge interests in Iraq's oilfields. Interests that will be blown apart if Saddam is toppled, and U.S. and British oil companies given concessions by a grateful people.

Now for more intrigue: Francis says Total's biggest single shareholder is Montreal's Paul Desmarais, whose youngest son is married to Chretien's daughter. Desmarais Sr., is also a director of Total, along with other ranking members of France's establishment. It's hard to believe the Desmarais/Chretien families haven't discussed their investments in Total, and Total's investments in Saddam's Iraq.

All above board, of course.

Yet to suspicious minds, the plot thickens -- and gets scarier by the day.

We're not believers in the "end of days" scenario, but for those who are, and who believe we're living in them, one necessary element is that anti-Christ already be among us. Just thought we'd point that out. Posted by Orrin Judd at April 7, 2003 9:09 AM