"Peter Kemp" peter_n_kempathotmaildotcom@ wrote in message
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On or about Wed, 17 Dec 2003 01:09:29 GMT, "Kevin Brooks"
allegedly uttered:


"Paul J. Adam" wrote in message
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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.