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Created overnight in the wake of the Great War, Iraq was the big prize, and it went to Britain. In compensation London yielded nearly one-quarter of the oil production of Iraq’s Mosul region to France, which secured oil-less Syria. ..

u.s. bid on iraq deemed lacking

Nevertheless, Chirac and Schroeder signaled that they are determined not to give United States easy ride in securing U.N mandate on Iraq, said Terrence Taylor, Washington of London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies... Daalder, foreign affairs specialist at Brookings..

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