Chirac was right to oppose the war, which was directed at the wrong foe, one who had not attacked us on 9/11. It failed to confront the real causes of the 9/11 jihad attacks, which have still not been confronted.
But the really interesting aspect of this story is that it raises another question: how many other Western politicians have accepted bribes in exchange for compliant policy positions? Who, and when, and who bribed them? Could the West’s wholesale capitulation to the Islamic supremacism, the erosion of the freedom of speech, the demonization of analysts who have discussed the actual causes of jihad activity, and the refusal to confront the motivating ideology behind jihad violence be the result of large bribes like this one? Will we ever find out?
“Saddam Hussein ‘bribed Jacques Chirac’ with £5million in bid to make the former French President oppose the US-led Iraq war,” by Abul Taher and Peter Henn, The Mail On Sunday, September 28, 2019 (thanks to Henry):
Jacques Chirac was paid millions of pounds in bribes by Saddam Hussein to oppose the US-led war in Iraq, according to intelligence revealed for the first time by Britain’s former spy chief.
Sir Richard Dearlove – head of MI6 in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 – spoke out as recent obituaries for the former French President cited his principled opposition to US President George Bush’s plans for military action.
But the former spymaster, speaking exclusively to The Mail on Sunday, revealed that Chirac’s true motive for opposing the Gulf War was because he accepted ‘substantial amounts’ of cash from the Iraqi tyrant for his election campaigns.
Sir Richard, who made the sensational revelation only days after the French statesman’s death on Thursday aged 86, said: ‘There were strong indications in the US and UK [intelligence services] that Chirac received money from Saddam.
‘His recent obituaries are saying that Chirac got it right [on Iraq] and the rest of us got it wrong. But I am saying that Chirac’s motive for getting it right may not appear to be what it is.’
Chirac had led an alliance of France, Germany and Russia against plans by the US and Britain to invade Iraq over suspicions that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction, which it would pass on to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda….
At the time, MI6 and its US counterparts were gathering ‘reliable intelligence’ that Chirac had pocketed £5 million from the Iraqi dictator to fight his presidential elections in 1995 and in 2002.
The money came from Saddam’s own personal funds and was passed to Chirac through intermediaries, according to the intelligence.
Sir Richard told this newspaper that the ‘long relationship’ between Chirac and Saddam was the real reason why the French leader opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
‘He [Chirac] had this questionable relationship with Saddam Hussein,’ said Sir Richard. ‘It raises a lot of questions as to what his motives were for opposing the UN Resolution in the build-up to the invasion.’
He added: ‘It was not a matter of conscience, it was his [Chirac’s] reputation. If it came out in the wash [that he received money from Saddam], it would have been damaging to him as a politician.
‘It was a dimension which at the time was politically worrying – Chirac had a longstanding relationship with Saddam, which was not state to state, it was personal.’…
mortimer says
Robert Spencer has asked the vital, critical question about the lack of resolve to stop jihad once for all:
“Could the West’s wholesale capitulation to the Islamic supremacism, the erosion of the freedom of speech, the demonization of analysts who have discussed the actual causes of jihad activity, and the refusal to confront the motivating ideology behind jihad violence be the result of large bribes like this one? Will we ever find out?”
Muslims all know that Mohammed’s last commands included the command to GIVE BRIBES TO FOREIGN EMISSARIES (diplomats).
BRIBERY DECREED BY MOHAMMED as a DYING COMMAND
Bukhari #005.059.716 Military Expeditions led by the Prophet (pbuh) (Al-Maghaazi)
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
Thursday! And how great that Thursday was! The ailment of Allah’s Apostle became worse (on Thursday) and he said, fetch me something so that I may write to you something after which you will never go astray.” The people (present there) differed in this matter, and it was not right to differ before a prophet. Some said, “What is wrong with him ? (Do you think ) he is delirious (seriously ill)? Ask him ( to understand his state ).” So they went to the Prophet and asked him again. The Prophet said, “Leave me, for my present state is better than what you call me for.” Then he ordered them to do three things. He said, “Turn the pagans out of the ‘Arabian Peninsula; respect and GIVE GIFTS TO THE FOREIGN DELEGATIONS AS YOU HAVE SEEN ME DEALING WITH THEM.” (Said bin Jubair, the sub-narrator said that Ibn Abbas kept quiet as regards the third order, or he said, “I forgot it.”) (See Hadith No. 116 Vol. 1)
If Muslim governments are *not* bribing Western diplomats and politicians it would be un-Islamic.
Bribing politicians is normative Islam and the SUNNA (sacred example) of Islam’s prophet.
Wellington says
Thanks for that particular piece of information, mortimer.
Well, bribery is just one subset of acting unethically and Mo was in the forefront of pioneering all kinds of unethical actions with a religious sanction—and actions not meant just for one time and place but for all time and all places.
The burden to mankind which is Islam continues unabated. Damn.
mortimer says
Islam’s ethics are opportunism.
gravenimage says
All of these “gifts” had been pirated from caravans, or demanded as “tribute”.
The unexpected voice says
Thanks for the information.
Angemon says
Indeed.
mortimer says
He had 6,150,000 motives.
Peter says
how many other Western politicians have accepted bribes in exchange for compliant policy positions?
A question that has no answers since there are currently too many ‘politicians’ to count.
terry sullivan says
iran is the enemy
gravenimage says
Well, one of them, certainly.
Emilie Green says
“Could the West’s wholesale capitulation to the Islamic supremacism, the erosion of the freedom of speech, the demonization of analysts who have discussed the actual causes of jihad activity, and the refusal to confront the motivating ideology behind jihad violence be the result of large bribes like this one?”
“And [he the betrayer] said unto them, ‘What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.'”
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Rape Allegations Against Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan Continue to Rise”
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/09/30/rape-allegations-against-islamic-scholar-tariq-ramadan-continue-to-rise/
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Jihadis Given Dutch Passports After Citizenship Revocation Cancelled”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/09/30/jihadis-given-dutch-passports-after-citizenship-revocation-cancelled/
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“At Least Two Dead as Afghan Migrants Set Greece Rescue Camp Ablaze”
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/09/30/at-least-two-dead-as-afghan-migrants-set-greece-rescue-camp-ablaze/
GreekEmpress says
And they have the nerve to riot because authorities didn’t respond quickly enough to the fires that they themselves started????
Words fail me—I’ll leave the responses to the more articulate posters and cooler heads on JW right now.
Anyway, thanks for the link FCI.
gravenimage says
Thanks for those appalling links, Flavius.
Giacomo Latta says
”Let’s go to Greece this winter and see the internment camps, Honey. Maybe we’ll be lucky and see some internal destruction!”
Does Greece still accord less than 50% of its budget to matters of defence? I’m not a fan of socialist countries but Greece does not deserve this. It deserves to be able to make a living which it can’t with muslims polluting the country every which way possible.
gravenimage says
*Yes*. Whatever a nation’s internal issues, they are made immeasurably worse with invading Muslims.
Terence says
Saudi arabia controls the un. They bribe and blackmail the paediophiles in gov. . We have to get rid of the eu and the elightist lib.lab.con
Wellington says
I don’t believe that Chirac was correct in opposing the removal of the psychopath, Saddam Hussein, which I think Bush 43 had to do. The Great Error by Bush was thereafter engaging in nation building in Iraq with democracy as its form of government; democracy, I mean real democracy, EVERY Islamic nation is incapable of implementing because real democracy requires freedom and Islam and freedom are completely incompatible. Indeed, they are mortal enemies of one another. Would that every non-Muslim in the West would grasp this.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington.
Terry Gain says
Wellington
I agree with you.
mortimer says
Yes, Muslims are mortal enemies of each other … the bloodshed began almost immediately upon the death of Mohammed. They will never agree to disagree. They will always crush their opposition and then the opposition will crush them in turn years down the road.
D J says
Eat your heart out Steve Austin! Look at a real 6 Million Dollar Man.
Infidel says
Chirac was the first in a long line of non-Leftist leaders who continued pandering to Arab Socialists in general, and Israel’s enemies in particular. There was Chirac, Sarkozy and now Macron.
I hope Marine Le Pen will sooner rather than later remove Macron and do what she can to reverse the Islamization of France that’s gone on so far. Also, I hope that in Germany, AfD comes to power and ends the Democrat Parties’ monopolization of power in Germany.
Lavéritétriomphera says
Marine Le Pen was opposed to the war in Libya, and she would have probably approuve Chirac as most of the French people in 2003.
Lavéritétriomphera says
Sorry, allow me to correct myself, Marine Le Pen was opposed to the war in Libya, and she would have probably approved Chirac as most of the French people at that time, because like Donald Trump, she is not a warmonger.
gravenimage says
Saddam Hussein bribed Jacques Chirac with $6,150,000 to get France to oppose the Iraq War
…………………
Good grief. Yes, one wonders how many other Western “leaders” have been so swayed. Troubling no matter what one thinks of the Iraq War.
Terry Gain says
If Saddam Hussein had not been removed, he would have returned to his passion to develop nuclear weapons as soon as sanctions ended. And he would likely have developed and used them by now. He needed to be removed. McGrory and Bhattia’s book Saddam’s Bomb is persuasive.
Muslim countries must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.
gravenimage says
Yes–the search for “moderate” Muslim leaders is generally quixiotic.
Mike says
In the run up to Gulf 2 German intelligence were also sure that Saddam had at least some WMDs still left, and had the capacity to build more. And they were getting their information from the horses mouth, from German companies, including chemical, they were illegally doing business with Iraq despite the sanctions.
What they were building were mobile facilities, and those were shipped to Syria in the 3 weeks before the US invasion, by both road and air. And that was testified to by senior Iraqi military figures, including the head of their air transport.
And of course, those where the chemical weapon production facilities used by Assad during the Syrian war.
gravenimage says
Very likely.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Jacques Chirac was famously corrupt. As mayor of Paris, he gave 481 of his supporters no-show jobs at the Mairie. He doled out to his friends many city-owned apartments, incuiding luxury flats, which they rented at far below — possibly one-third — the market rate. He received suitcases of cash from all over; from black African leaders alone, he received a suitcase with 20 million euros. He also received sums from Saudi Arabia.
He was a famous womanizer as well — that activity too, must have run into money. An endless series of mistresses had to be accommodated and supported. How much of their upkeep was paid for in city-owned apartments and no-show jobs, and the bribe money that Chirac received from so many louche sources, is not known.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Then there is the death in 1979 of Robert Boulin, a government minister, who was found “drowned” in a shallow pond in Rambouillet. The death was ruled a suicide but there are many reasons for thinking it was a political assassination, for Boulin knew a lot about the louche finances of the RPR, the party to which Chirac belonged. Chirac’s role, if any, in the death of Boulin, deserves further investigation.
For French speakers, a program about Boulin’s death can be listened to here: https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/affaires-sensibles/affaires-sensibles-06-octobre-2015
gravenimage says
All very troubling.
TattooedMan77 says
How much Comte could that money have bought for those Surrender Monkeys?
Lavéritétriomphera says
TattooedMan,
Well, you think you’re clever, don’t you? Read a history book and change your tune.
Paddy O'Connor says
The article and all comments are highly informative but omits focus on ‘brown envelopes’ galore given strategically to lower echelons , city and town councillors to award planning permission for mosques,etc.,as well as activists like BLM ,Gays and pro-Palestinan anti-semites.
Marigold says
Saddam Hussein was far from perfect but at least Christians were able to live in peace under his regime.They were not persecuted like they were later under ISIS. Pope ST John Paul 2 opposed the war with Iraq as well.He said ” On my knees I beg you” but Tony Blair and George Bush were determined to go to war with him under the pretext that he had weapons of mass destruction which were never found.As for Jacqe Chirac I can easily believe he was bribed.He was just a polititian after all but Saddam must have been desperate by then to avoid war with the US.
Lavéritétriomphera says
And now we can see the state of Irak and Middle East after the action of Tony Blair and George Bush.