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To: D. Long who wrote (5446)	4/10/2003 8:27:55 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 15987

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. That's just stupid.. They want the US to adopt the role of "contract enforcer" for the very governments who supported a repressive regime? I'm not particularly inclined to have the US seen as providing "muscle" to force any new Iraqi government into abiding by debts accrued by the former dictatorship. Let them sue Saddam Hussein (or his estate) and place a lien against HIS assets, and not those of a new Iraqi government. France and Russia would be FAR BETTER SERVED by NOT using bluster and threats to obtain cooperation in having previous debts honored by any new Iraqi regime. All they are doing is creating the conditions by which the new government will feel entirely justified in CANCELING those debts, and possibly turning around and suing France and Russia for providing the means by which 23 million Iraqis were kept in oppression and terror. Hawk