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To: Elsewhere who wrote (111772)	8/17/2003 1:09:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

Thanks for the facts Jochen. Private and corporate debts should still be paid. But not regime or government debts. There is zero reason for long-suffering Iraqis to pay reparations to Kuwait. It was not their decision to invade Kuwait. It was Saddam's. I actually think that Kuwait should be amalgamated with Iraq. Both Kuwait and Iraq are artificial states, established by colonial and United Nations decree and conquered by UN forces [particularly the USA]. Kuwaitis are more wealthy than Iraqis. It's absurd for poor people in Iraq, who committed no offence, to fund the wealthy of Kuwait. That's like asking low paid Chinese and Indian immigrants to the USA to pay Condoleezza Rice as compensation for [I suppose, but am guessing] having slave ancestors. Anyone who lends to somebody like Saddam deserves to lose their money and certainly shouldn't expect his victims to repay the debt. If anything, the victims should get compensation from the lenders for pain, suffering and death which the loans helped enable. Those debts should be turned around and $387bn paid to Iraq, not paid by Iraqis. Well, not all the debts, such as reparations to Kuwait. But weaponry supplied to Saddam by France or Russia on credit enabled gross violation of Iraqis and those suppliers should pay damages and certainly should not be paid by the victims of Saddam and the weaponry. If the UN is turned loose on Iraq, without a NUN [New United Nations] without a sensible constitution being established, Iraqis will be bled dry by the greedy kleptocrats who will steal the oil and waste it on UN boondoggles. The USA is less likely to steal the oil than the current UN. Mqurice