Countries excluded from rebuilding Iraq
Recently some pundits and appeasers have reacted negatively to our decision to exclude countries like France, Germany and Russia from participitating in bidding on contracts to rebuild Iraq. Despite the fact that they shouldn't be rewarded by our taxpayers for our costs, and our soldiers' sacrifices, there are additional compelling reasons to support our position. The reason these countries wouldn't support us was because of money. Despit the U.N. sanctions against trading with Iraq, these countries not only traded with them, they provided them with weapons and defensive intfra-structure. In addition, France, for instance, had negotiated a deal with Hussein to develop approximately 25% of Iraq's oil, a contract which would have been worth hundreds of billions (with a b) of dollars for the French. Also, it is alleged that the President of France accepted cash donations (bribes?) from Hussein supposedly for politial purposes. For this France, Germany, and Russia attempted to tototally embarrass us in the U.N. There is more. These 3 countries are owed approximately $100 billion for business done with Iraq, including business done during the U.N. sanctions. Now, why would these countries go into so much debt with Hussien, who apparently knew that he wouldn't pay them back? Well, my opinion is that their motive for letting that debt accumulate is that they would get a piece of Iraq's oil reserves, if not take them over. Otherwise why would smart business men and their political hacks go along with such unbusinesslike actions? Now, another part of this is reparations, which I assume is for damage done in the war with Iran and Kuwait. That is another $100 billinon. To put it in perspective, The $13 billion of oil revenues each year would hardly pay the interest on the reparations and the debt due. We are asking France, Germany and Russia to forgive their debt, which if paid, would keep Iraq in poverty for generations. Because most of this debt was incurred during the U.N. sanctions, this a perfectly reasonable request; and, if these countries fail to agree to it, they are dooming 25,000,000 to poverty, which they had nothing to do with. Now,some people say that we are creating animosity with these European countries because of our excluding them from rebuilding Iraq and asking for forgiveness of debt. However, these people are living in lala land, because most of the Europeans (Great Britain and some other countries excepted) hate us anyway, and they aren't doing the right thing.