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$1.78 BILLION

in U.N. aid ended up in the back pocket of French government officials, businessmen and journalists via Saddam Hussein. The coalition of the bribed and the bought, indeed.

One Iraqi intelligence report stated that a French politician assured Saddam in a letter that France would use its veto in the U.N. Security Council against any U.S. effort to attack Iraq.

THE CHARACTER

OF THE FRENCH.