[kattracks]

But...but.. how can this be? Russia and the rest of the Axis of Weasels are sooooo concerned for the Iraqi people.

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[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

RUSSIA WILL NEVER SEE A CENT!

Hey pootie-poot, go get paid from Saddam. He's the one who ran up the tab!!

har har

[Prince Charles]

Message to Russia: no more contracts for you.

[WOSG]

hypocrite ... how much did IMF give to Russia in 1998? $8 billion??

[Scothia]

Won't David Gergen have to take back all his fawning on FNC yesterday about how the kindly, compassionate Russians were going to to give an example to other nations about how to treat their debtors. </gag>

[Carry_Okie]

Russia ministers says Moscow won't drop Iraq debt

Oh, so they're VOLUNTEERING TO HOLD THE BAG!!!

How nice of them.

Iraq can either repudiate the debt as composed of illegal contracts or just ignore it altogether.

[Cultural Jihad]

The French, German, and Russian imperialists were more than willing to help Saddam loot the Iraqi treasury while the Iraqi people went hungry and tortured.

End the imperialism of the these weasels!

[Grampa Dave]

Yo, Russian KGBers and Mafia thugs, you had best collect your billions from the thugs and families of the Soddomite top 55.

Because you ain't getting any money from the New Free Republic of Iraq.

Maybe your extortionists can collect from the Frogs, the Krauts and the Belgium scumbags.

[JoeSchem]

"We are acting on the basis of the same rules here: we are doing what is being done to us," Kudrin said.

I've always felt that the Russian Republic has a right to repudiate the debt incurred by the Soviet Union. The tyrants who borrowed the money are gone, and the capitalists who sold them the rope with which to hang the West deserve to be hanged themselves, not just stiffed.

[maestro]

The Paris Club is an informal forum for 19 creditor nations to discuss rescheduling debts to developing countries.

Does Mr. Paris have a last name?

[Illbay]

I get what you're saying, but I have to admit Kudrin has a point. "No one excused us from the SOVIET debt, why are we supposed to forgive the IRAQI's debt?"

This whole "world debt" thing is going to blow up one of these days. People here think war's all about religion and ideology. It's ALWAYS about money.

[wtc911]

Russia needs oil at $23.5/bbl to meet their projected budget. This gives them a solid surplus. If the price falls below $17.5/bbl they run a deficit. The best case scenario for Russia would have been a protracted Iraq war with severe, long term damage to the oil fields. The increased Russian oil exports and rise in $$/bbl would have exponentially offset what Russia would have lost in unpaid Iraqi debt.(did Putin gamble on this?)

The worste case scenario for Russia is what happened, a quick war with the liklihood of a quicker return to full Iraqi oil production. There is conjecture that Putin's objection to the war was based on the gamble. It didn't pay off, now he wants to collect the lesser amount.

[struwwelpeter]

Just as soon as Russia redeems all those Tsarist debts.

[George W. Bush]

Nice propaganda ploy by our State department. The new Iraqis won't be too likely to awarding contracts to the Weasels. And may not feel like honoring Saddam's debts.

Oh yeah, Russia has not repaid all its debts. The old Tsarist bonds were never honored. So a lot of their debt has been forgiven already.

It's in the interests of America and Britain and Israel to develop the oil and sell the weaponry the new Iraq will need. And Europe can come begging for oil if it wants. Otherwise, Iraq can sell it in Asia quite easily.

The frogs and krauts and russkies are going to regret what they've done recently for many years to come.

[Enterprise]

Well, I'm willing to be generous here. There is a lot of money with Saddam's picture on it laying around the streets. Simply gather up all of that money and give it to Russia!

[ncountylee]

After WWI the Soviet Union renounced debts incurred by The Russian Empire and made only a token payment in 1972 for WWII debts.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

What debate??

Sheesh,.. they are beginning to resemble Baghdad Bob!!

[CathyRyan]

Thw Axis of Weasels are a bunch of wankers. See what learning a new word a day can do for you vocabulary. He wanks, she wanks(?) I know it does not wank.

[LaGrone]

If Russia sold Iraq shoulder fired anti tank missiles, we won't forgive that either Putin.

[Kay Soze]

What Debt?

If they can find Saddam - then they can collect.

Illigetimate dictators typically dont honor their debts.