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Revue de Presse-Press Review-BerhevokaÇapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basm Özeti Top Bush aide savages .. 'selfish' ChIrac White House adviser Richard Perle tells David Rose that France's.'cosy. . . . relationship' with Saddammeans . it willveto a second UN resolution' A LEADING adviser to Presi- , dent Bush last night launched a savage attack on President Chirac's diplomatic campaign to block war with Iraq, saying that it was merely the product of French commercial interests masquerading as a moral case for peace. In an exclusive interview with The Obseroer, Richard , Perle; chairman of the Pentagon's Defence Policy Board and a central figUre in the circle of hawks around Bush, went well beyond US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's recent criticism of 'old,' Europe', warning that war Too close by half: Ri~h~rdPerle, left, says a French veto at the UN would la~k moral force ~ecaus~a of France's commercial interests in Iraq. Above: Chirac and Saddam meet In 1974. CorblslSyg without the further approval of the UN Security Councili'eplace it with a hostile öne. expansion of Iraqi' explo- ration and development. was now imminent. 'So how much legitimacy. 'When you consider that 'I'm rather pessimistic that. attaches toaFrench veto? At _ there is now a prospect that we will get French support for some point, people are going the oilfields may be destroyed a second resolution authoris- .to have to start asking them- by Saddam,-if what we really ing war,' Perle said. 'I think. selves that question.' wanted was rqore oil, not only they will exercise their veto,. In Perle's view, the French should we not be s1,1pporting arid in other ways obstruct position against regime Saddam's removal, (veshould unified action by the Security change in Iraq ~is, fatall~ ' 'be working with him.' Council: they're lobbying undermined by its multI- ' Perle denied claims widely furiously now.' billion-dollar oil interests reported on both sides of the Perle agree\Î that support negotiated since the last Gulf Atlantic that the Bush adminfor war in Britain and America w~: 'There's certainly a large istration intends to rule Iraq, wouldrisetftherewereasec- :French~omniercial interest directly through a military and resolution, and that the 'in Iraq, and there are con- governor for àn extended UN was 'a symbol of interna- tracts thatanèwgovernment ' period, and that it envisages" tional legitimacy'. But in ,in Iraq may not choose to. no role for the Iraqi opposi- : words that will serve only to "uphold, partly becau8.e-- tion. He was scathing about, deepen the transatlantic rift ',theY'resounfavourableto~he, the 'conventional wisdom' ' over Iraq, he added: 'These fiv~ people of Iraq. Sadd~ihas' among the foreign policy an~ countries, the permanent ,been prepared to,do deals to intelligence establishment, members ofthe Security Coun- i. keep himself in power atthe which holds that the Iraqi cil, are not a judicial body. \ eXpense of the people. , opposition groups are hope- They're not expected to make lessly divided and the counmoral or legaljudgments, but 'My understanding of the try far too fractious for meanto advance the respective largest of these deals, which ingful democracy. interests oftheir countries. ' is the French Total-Fin~,E~f 'This is a trivial observation 'So if the French ambas-, contracttodevelopcertainOll, andamisleadingone,bothby sador gets up and expresses, , properties in Iraq, is that it is CIA officials and MI6,' Perle the position of the govern.: ; both very large and very said. 'They're simply wrong ment of France, what you are ' unfavourable to the Iraqis.' about this. They don't underhearing is the moral author. . Perle ~dded that he fou.nd stand the opposition. They say ity of Jacques Chirac, what. ' the claIm, that ,AmerIca they're divided. Are they more ever thàt may mean. wished to topple Saddam for divided than the Labour 'What you're heàri~g is the sake of its own oil inter- Party? I rather doubt it. Are what the FreIfchJ~resident ests bizarre. they more divided than the . perceives to be intiui interests 'The US interest is to'buy Tories? I certainly doubtthat.' of France. And. the l'!ench oil cheaply on the world mar- His own long-term dealings President.has found hIS own ket. And the best way to with Ahmad Chalabi, leader way of dealing with Sad~am increase the supply of Iraqi of the Iraqi National Con- Hussein. It would be roilhter oil, and so cut prices, would gress, and key figures in the to French interests to destroy : have been to abandon sane-' main Kurdish groups, had that cosY,relationship, }lnd tions in 1991 and urge the. convinced him and other leading USpOlicymakers that 'Iraq is a very good candidate for democratic reform'. 'It won't be Westminster overnIght, but the great democracies orthe world did~ n't achieve the full, rich structure of democratic governance overnight. The Iraqis have a decent chance of suc' ceeding under the leadership thathas developed in the diaspora caused by ~addam's seizure of power.' . , Reports claiming that a US . military governor would keep most of Saddam's Baath .Party officials in place and .run the country on existing .administrative structures .WE)rein~cGurat,e an.
Revue de Presse-Press .Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Baszn Özeti l '-J found it 'politically incorrect' to describe regimes such as Iraq and North Korea as evil now: 'What we discovered from the victims of the Soviet empire, once they were free to speak, wa& that they agreed with us: evil was exactly the wordthey chose. I suspect 'that's tne word that would be 'chosen by most of tliose forced to live in North Korea under Kim Jong n,uncIër the Iranian mullahs andSaddam Hussein.' THE PRICE AMERICA WILL PAYFORWAR The Unifed States' efforts to win support around the world are backed up byilgood deal of 'dollàr diplomacy.' Here is what many of the key players and Security Council minnows are hoping they might get in return. ~ Under pressure from America to station troops for a ground 'invasion Turkey has been offered an increas:d aid package of $28 billion but still has doubts. ~ Has been promised over three times Its , , anRual income in aid - $10bn should the US go to war. JORDAN $SOOm A key regional player, Jordan hopes to receive double its amount in ald. EGYPT $2.2bn Key figure within the region receives $2.2bn in aid from Washington. , PAI
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