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What would happen if...

Posted: 2003-02-17 10:23pm
by Master of Ossus
The United States and Britain went into Iraq and liberated Baghdad, then found "Made in France" written all over the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction?

Re: What would happen if...

Posted: 2003-02-17 10:25pm
by TrailerParkJawa
Master of Ossus wrote:The United States and Britain went into Iraq and liberated Baghdad, then found "Made in France" written all over the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction?
Im assuming they would have manufacture dates after 1990?

Good question, I bet it would be swept under the rug.

Posted: 2003-02-17 10:25pm
by kojikun
That would explain why Frenchy Picard speaks with a British accent.. OCCUPATION!!!!!!!!11

Posted: 2003-02-17 10:25pm
by Kelly Antilles
*ROTFLMAO* Probably go, "It figures."

Posted: 2003-02-17 10:26pm
by haas mark
:twisted:

Re: What would happen if...

Posted: 2003-02-17 10:29pm
by Master of Ossus
TrailerParkJawa wrote:
Master of Ossus wrote:The United States and Britain went into Iraq and liberated Baghdad, then found "Made in France" written all over the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction?
Im assuming they would have manufacture dates after 1990?

Good question, I bet it would be swept under the rug.
Yes, of course with dates after 1990.

Posted: 2003-02-17 10:33pm
by Mr Bean
So Mossad was right agian

Posted: 2003-02-17 10:37pm
by Sea Skimmer
It wouldn't be that surprising if it was the manufacturing equipment. France sold Iraq several billion dollars worth of military and industrial equipment in the 1970's and 80's, including there long since flattened nuclear power plant. Germany was behind most of the chemical stuff though. There nuclear equipment was mostly from Western Europe with some from North American and Asia sources. Bio samples came from all over, the equipment from Germany though there was a lot they could do with there own stuff. Rockets from the USSR, North Korea and Libya, and of course there's the UK built supergun of doom.

Posted: 2003-02-17 10:37pm
by Master of Ossus
Mr Bean wrote:So Mossad was right agian
Well, it's just a hypothetical situation. They MIGHT have been right, again, but we don't have any evidence of it right now.

Posted: 2003-02-17 11:15pm
by Vympel
I should point out that a lot of this stuff came from private companies. For some perspective, the US government has gone after a lot of defense and civilian contractors selling sensitive tech to China- this doesn't mean that the US wanted it to happen. And of course, the US helped Iraq's WMD program plenty.

Posted: 2003-02-17 11:17pm
by Kuja
Brains would lock up after making the realization that the WEAPONS came from FRANCE.

Posted: 2003-02-17 11:17pm
by Joe
Then we should make Spain into an island, if you know what I mean.

But seriously, the weapons probably would be harmless anyway, they would stop working whenever enemy forces appear.

Posted: 2003-02-18 09:27am
by theski
A motion to throw France off the Security Counsel would be placed immediately. Then the boycotts would begin..

Posted: 2003-02-18 09:30am
by Boba Fett
They would speak their butts out of the shit... :wink:

Posted: 2003-02-18 09:38am
by EmperorMing
I can just imagine the political fallout... :twisted:

Posted: 2003-02-18 09:42am
by Admiral Valdemar
IG-88E wrote:Brains would lock up after making the realization that the WEAPONS came from FRANCE.
For a minute then I thought you meant Brains as in a certain Thunderbirds character.

Posted: 2003-02-18 09:45am
by desertjedi
The boycotts are being prepared at this moment. One of the republican reps want to attach an information label on french imported wines that use bovine blood as a clarifier. Obviously this is a tactic to lower the sales of french wines.

I wouldn't be surprised if France is removed from the security council and is completely booted out of NATO. They are already making great advances in being the most mocked country in the world.

Posted: 2003-02-18 09:50am
by EmperorMing
desertjedi wrote:The boycotts are being prepared at this moment. One of the republican reps want to attach an information label on french imported wines that use bovine blood as a clarifier. Obviously this is a tactic to lower the sales of french wines.

I wouldn't be surprised if France is removed from the security council and is completely booted out of NATO. They are already making great advances in being the most mocked country in the world.
For a time there I was under the impression that France never was a part of NATO...

Posted: 2003-02-18 09:53am
by theski
Ming, I belive a non military but voting member of NATO

Posted: 2003-02-18 07:40pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
I'm sure everyone would say that France was acting cowardly and peaceful so people wouldn't think they were giving weapons to Iraq.

Posted: 2003-02-18 07:44pm
by Tsyroc
kojikun wrote:That would explain why Frenchy Picard speaks with a British accent.. OCCUPATION!!!!!!!!11
:lol:

Re: What would happen if...

Posted: 2003-02-18 07:46pm
by Stormbringer
Master of Ossus wrote:The United States and Britain went into Iraq and liberated Baghdad, then found "Made in France" written all over the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction?
Faint at the thought of the French making weapons.

Posted: 2003-02-18 10:33pm
by Tragic
It would explain the way they are acting right now. If we find weapons made in france there

Posted: 2003-02-19 11:37am
by The Great Unbearded One
Wouldnt some of the stuff say ''Made In Russia'' too...

Posted: 2003-02-19 11:40am
by David
The Great Unbearded One wrote:Wouldnt some of the stuff say ''Made In Russia'' too...



Most likely most of the older stuff, newer would be N. Korea, I doubt we have intercepted all of the equipment going into Iraq.