U.S.'s Snow: France Could Help to Ease Iraq Debt

[Khephra]

U.S.'s Snow: France Could Help to Ease Iraq Debt
Sun November 16, 2003 11:23 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Sunday he was confident France would help a U.S.-led drive to speed up Iraqi reconstruction by helping to ease its severe debt load.
France has led opposition to U.S. policy in Iraq, blocking a U.N. resolution to back war, then calling for a swift transfer of power to Iraqis. Paris also declined to give any new money for Iraqi reconstruction at a donor's conference last month.

The World Bank estimates Iraq owes some $120 billion, an amount Washington has said should be substantially forgiven in order to give Iraq a better chance at rebuilding its economy.

"We talked primarily about the debt side and I think France will be very forthcoming on the debt side," Snow told reporters after traveling to Britain from France where he met French Finance Minister Francis Mer on Sunday.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=3830038

[BuckeFushe]

1. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

This continues to appear to be a bad episode of The Outer Limits more and more every day. The French are not forgiving this debt, period, not as long as the Boy Prince is squatting in our White House.

[Raenelle]

2. Coulda, woulda, shoulda--exactly where is the point at which

these nitwits touch reality?

[wryter2000]

3. That's a pile of

Merde.

[bemildred]

4. Would this be before or after we apologize for

insulting and alienating them?

[Cooley Hurd]

7. After the calls in Congress to yank their liberators from their soil...

(after Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite tried to intorduce a bill in the House that would remove US WW2 war dead to be reinterred in the US) I wouldn't expect the French to do anything of the sort.

That was a lowpoint in US-Franco relation history...

[bemildred]

13. That's a good point.

It is amazing the sort of narcissistic retards that manage to
get elected to Congress in this country.

[dax]

5. Lets have the World Bank WRITE OFF ALL DEBTS!!!

ALL countries would benefit from being relieved of their debt load to rebuild-how many fascists have consolidated their power on the skids of the IMF-

France should make a list of all the debts US could forgive to make the world a better place and work out a deal....In the meantime, US broke, US fix it why should anyone else pay for George's mess

[MrSoundAndVision]

6. Yeah France forgive the debt...

so that the Iraqi oil money can go to our corporations instead. That way, we get really rich while you get to look like your being humanitarian. I think the people who run Washington must be retarded or something, maybe they watched too many episode's of Dallas.

[lefty_mcduff]

8. Why should France forgive debts that would now be paid...

..to US corporations and Cheney cronies. Here, give me a haul on that pipe Johnny...

[peekaloo]

9. LOL......

We mock, insult, threaten and sh*t all over them but I'm sure they'll readily fork over whatever little Freddie Quimby needs.

"Come on, say it Frenchie....CHOW_DEHR".

[0007]

10. Why can't James A. Baker III persaude Saudi Arabia and

Kuwait to forgive the Iraqi debt? After all the Carlyle boy are big buddies with these Counties that Iraq owe the most.

John Snow talks like he has a papperasshole.

[mikehiggins]

11. Another Bushoid luon

Snow is the Bush equivalent of the Iraqi Information Minister.

The scary part of all this is that these guys beleive that if they want something, some magical power will make it happen. It isn't so much that they lie, as much as it is they have no concept of what is real and what is not.

I guess if God elects you to office you can feel that way.

[Dr Fate]

12. Bush lied to France several times, and they know it.

I imagine they really do not like working the guy.

This will cahnge when they have a DEM adnmin to work with- a clean slate w/o the lies and deceptions...