"John Keeney" wrote in message
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"Yama" wrote in message
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...which he paid with US money...

The vast majority of which, I suspect, he did not get from the United
States.
Simply the chosen currency of the oil market.
And an absolutely meaningless statement.

The fact is that he got credit from USA (plus some other support).
Obviously, not enough to cover vast Iraqi war expenses, but he did get some.

As for unpaid Iraqi war loans, interesting piece about it:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...aker_s_trip_18
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"Germany and the United States, like France, are ready not only for debt
restructuring but also for substantial debt forgiveness toward Iraq (news -
web sites)," German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's spokesman Bela Anda said
in a statement.
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