[A-List] Re: Iraq Debts Add Up to Trouble

["Gunnar Tomasson" <gunnar.tomasson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re. the following:

> As for the debt burden. Why don't we continue the 'evil rhetoric' after
the war too? Saddam Hussein was the evil man that put Iraq in this mess,
once he's gone, why should the innocent Iraqi people pay for his misdeeds
after their 'liberation'? After all, the US wanted to 'free Iraq', maybe it
should also make it debt-free, and then rage a new war to liberate dozens of
HIPCs from their debt burden, or is it pushing the rhetoric far too much?
Maybe not!

Comment:

The "debt burden" won't be a problem.

See 'Iraq - Odious Debt?' by Presidents Putin and Chirac in the April 1,
2003 issue of the New York Times.

Gunnar



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From: "Kaboub, Fadhel (UMKC-Student)" <KaboubF@xxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Iraq Debts Add Up to Trouble


> All these people ignore the fact that Iraq is a rich country not because
of its oil resources but because of its skilled labor. Iraq might need some
external help to speed up its reconstruction but it certainly doesn't need
an army of foreign engineers and technicians. This is a myth that the US
government is selling to the world to serve the interest of several lobbying
groups in DC, some of which have government officials sitting on their board
of directors. Today we hear the US government talking about 'reforming the
Iraqi educational and healthcare system'. Look who is talking about
healthcare and education! Of course, the term 'reforming' means
'privatizing' since it is the only thing a laissez-faire government knows.
>
> As for the debt burden. Why don't we continue the 'evil rhetoric' after
the war too? Saddam Hussein was the evil man that put Iraq in this mess,
once he's gone, why should the innocent Iraqi people pay for his misdeeds
after their 'liberation'? After all, the US wanted to 'free Iraq', maybe it
should also make it debt-free, and then rage a new war to liberate dozens of
HIPCs from their debt burden, or is it pushing the rhetoric far too much?
Maybe not!
>
> Fadhel