Klaus
Refugee
womanfish said:
Also my other problem is this:
the top 4 trade nations with Iraq (in order)
1. France
2. Russia
3. Australia
4. China
Top 3 Creditor Nations of Iraq (in order)
1.France
2.Russia
3.China
3 Countries with the largest oil contracts and oil field construction contracts with Iraq.
-France
-Russia
-Germany
Trade: lots of those trades were because of the UN Oil for food program, Iraq could choose where to buy the Food and the Medicine.
So the sheer numbers of trade volume don't help much.
And if we look who sold which weapons (and focus on the whole time the Baath party rules this country) it looks verry different.
Debts:
as i mentioned in other threads, just because there is a regime change in Iraq i see no reason why this would automaticaly drop the debts (if it was like this it would be easy for the African countries to get rid of their debts, no reason for a "drop the debts campaign)
To the contracts the same, if a regme change changes this contracts i would begin to understand the "no blood for oil" campaign of the "PeaceNiks"
Klaus