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"Peter Kemp" peter_n_kempathotmaildotcom@ wrote in message ... On or about Wed, 17 Dec 2003 01:09:29 GMT, "Kevin Brooks" allegedly uttered: "Paul J. Adam" wrote in message ... In message , Keith Willshaw writes The so called Paris club (I kid you not) of western debtors are insisting that Iraq pay up. So while the US aand Britain are spending lives and billions of dollars stabilising Iraq and rebuilding that nation the Paris club are lecturing piously from the sidelines while trying their dammdest to collect their pound of flesh and insisting they get a share of the reconstruction contracts. Conversely, what incentive do they now have to forgive those debts? Well, the continued enmity of the US can get to be quite expensive in the long run, for one. Because the US is being so friendly to Russia, France, and Germany at the moment? Seriously, what have they got to lose? The rebuilding contracts that the Iraqis themselves will be letting and the next twenty years worth of business there. |
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Paul J. Adam wrote:
In message , Keith Willshaw writes The so called Paris club (I kid you not) of western debtors are insisting that Iraq pay up. So while the US aand Britain are spending lives and billions of dollars stabilising Iraq and rebuilding that nation the Paris club are lecturing piously from the sidelines while trying their dammdest to collect their pound of flesh and insisting they get a share of the reconstruction contracts. Conversely, what incentive do they now have to forgive those debts? Is that the way it works? Let's put it another way. What makes them think they'll collect *anything* if they aren't a little flexible on this issue? SMH |
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