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[Cyrus]

Terrance wrote:

>Distrustful? This is utterly naive. The Coalition intends to use Iraqi
>oil revenues to finance the country's reconstruction. France and Russia
>have huge oil contracts with the ousted regime and that's the main
>reason they opposed the war. Now they want the sanctions lifted so they
>can get their money. They are among Iraq's biggest creditors.
>Distrustful? Why the hell did they sell arms to Iraq for credit even as
>the coalition forces were invading? Did they trust Iraq's brutal regime
>more than the UN? More than NATO? Should those Iraq-French-Russian
>contracts be honored now? NO blood for oil, right? Well, the French and
>Russians still have their vetoes on the Security Council. Lukoil,
>Russia's biggest oil company, threatened that it would seek to have
>Iraqi oil impounded if a new Iraqi government tried to kill the contract
>it signed in 1997 with the butcher Saddam Hussein. Distrustful? There is
>American and British blood in the Qurna. Distrust?
>  
>

Again, this is very nice, and to the point, but I still think waging a 
war without explicit international consent makes other countries 
distrustful. Who ever said France, Germany and Russia are governed by 
saints? What do you think the USA appears like in the eyes of the people 
in the Arab countries, in the Far East, in Africa etc.? Or do you not 
care about them?

Cyrus