Hey, weasels, forgive that debt
: Keeping alive the John McCain suggestion that France, Germany, and Russia should forgive their Iraqi debuts, here comes a story from Radio Free Europe that says Russia wants not only the debt repaid but also wants Iraq to honor Saddam’s oil deals.
It hopes to collect on an outstanding Soviet-era debt and it has also set its sights on Iraq’s potentially lucrative oil fields. Russia’s LUKoil energy company had signed contracts with Saddam Hussein’s government and says it is ready to initiate legal proceedings if the future Iraqi government fails to honor the deal. But analysts say priority in postwar-Iraq business deals will likely be given to those countries whose forces toppled Hussein’s regime…
