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WikiLeaks Revelation: Bush Administration Plotted Retaliation Against EU For Refusing GMO Seeds | DisinformationCountry team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU [Emphasis added] Recommendation by US Ambassador to France, Craig Stapleton.Wikileaked cables released over the weekend revealed more about the US role as a global bully, trying to thrust unpopular genetically modified (GM) crops onto cautious governments and their citizens. In a 2007 cable from Craig Stapleton, then US Ambassador to France, he encouraged the US government to reinforce our negotiating position with the EU on agricultural biotechnology by publishing a retaliation list. A list, he added, that causes some pain across the EU since this is a collective responsibility.