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The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years, partly because France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq that wouldn't be redeemable by a new regime.

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Jonah Goldberg
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 21
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