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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5436)	4/9/2003 2:08:05 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

The last thing I want to see is France, China, or Russia possessing veto authority with regard to the rebuilding of Iraq. Boy, you can say that again -- especially after our guys have paid the price in blood... --ken

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5436)	4/10/2003 1:26:26 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15987

The last thing I want to see is France, China, or Russia possessing veto authority with regard to the rebuilding of Iraq. If they want to play a role, then let them pony up the bucks to buy their ticket. Pretty cheaky, isn't it Hawk? I like this from the Economist, laughed myself out of my chair when I read it: However, it is not really in the interest of the anti-war countries to remain at loggerheads with America. They may be persuaded to endorse the American-led administration, even if there is a price to be paid. America intends to use Iraqi oil revenues to finance the country’s reconstruction. But France and Russia have a list of oil contracts waiting to go ahead once sanctions are lifted, and both countries are among Iraq's biggest creditors. America may find it has to promise that the new Iraq will honour those debts and that, even if old oil contracts are not honoured, opponents of the war will not be excluded from new contracts. Failure to give such assurances might tempt the French and Russians to wield their vetoes on the Security Council. ROFLMAO!! They might wield their vetoes... against what?! A sign of the sort of commercial wrangles to come appeared on April 8th, when Lukoil, Russia's biggest oil company, threatened that it would seek to have Iraqi oil impounded if a new Iraqi government tried to kill the contract it signed in 1997 with Saddam Hussein's regime to develop the vast West Qurna oilfield. And WHO is going to be doing the impounding? Russia doesn't hold the cards. Neither does France or Germany. Not much they can do about it, either. Derek