but we can hold a grudge against weasels like Chirac for his behavior, can't we? In the article, it talks about France's 30 year business relationship with Iraq. What they don't say is that during that time, they were propping up a tyrant who is responsible for over a million deaths. It seems to me there's a good chance the new government won't want to do business with countries that propped up the Baaths as they murdered so many people. They may well be more inclined to work with the people who freed them rather than the people who tried to prolong Saddam's dictatorship. Just a hunch.