While they’re providing cover for Saddam’s henchmen, they’re sending bottles of expensive wine to Blair. What two-faced slimeballs. I liked this extract from the BBC story:
Wine merchants praised the French president’s choice. “Chateau Mouton Rothschild is at the very top end of the market,” said UK fine wine merchant Tom Lorimer of Lea and Sandeman. “If he had given our Prime Minister anything less I would have called him up myself to reproach him.” The choice of 1989 vintage, however, while generous, is not the best money can buy, even at $200 a bottle. “If I were Jacques Chirac I would have gone for 1982 – an outstanding year,” said Mr Lorimer. “It is the sort of wine that Saddam Hussein was probably stocking in his palace wine cellars before he lost his country.”
Ouch. I wonder what vintage Chirac used to send to Saddam.
The Dish 