[Dog]

I'm going to get flamed for this opinion.....but I say let's do it..

Give the Russian's the money that is owed to them.

We need to end the Oil for Food...ASAP.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Russia is owed those contracts like Hussein's heirs are owed all his stolen riches.

[pgyanke]

Give the Russian's the money that is owed to them.

I agree to a point--but it's a very small point. So dumb and Insane ran Iraq like it was his own piggy bank. With him out of power, I would treat it like a bankruptcy and carefully scrutinize all debts. No has yet argued that the Iraqi people had any say in their former government, therefore they should not be saddled indefinitely with the criminal deals made by it.

[FairOpinion]

Are you suggesting that we should allow Russia & France blackmail us into honoring their billions of dollars of programs, after they were obstructing us?

We might as well just lie down, so Chirac can kick us better.

[thinktwice]

The U.S. proposals would end the oil-for-food program, which puts Iraq's oil revenues into a U.N.-administered fund out of which are paid suppliers of food, medicine and other goods. The account holds $12 billion --

The American/British way is to handle this with common sense and honor

So the best course would be to let the UN program lapse on June 3rd while seeing to it that legitimate creditors are paid from the UN account and that remaining funds are placed in a Swiss Trust account dedicated to the people of Iraq.

After June 3rd, control of Iraqi assets should be placed in the hands of a "coalition" appointed board with representatives, one each, from the United States, Britain and Iraq; with that board mandated to honorably manage Iraqi foreign business affairs -- through that Swiss Trust account -- until control can be passed to a legitimately elected government of Iraq.

[MatthewViti]

"No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation."

--David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations