Good point, C-Flat. The Washington Post had the debt at $8B that Iraq owes Russia, but, who's quibbling. I'm sure Putin-head would take the $8B in a heartbeat in exchange for not making any noises.

But like to the basic premise, if this. like a bank robbery gets pulled off, and there is little doubt that it will, you can bet that the US will be that much richer. Oh sure, they'll throw out numbers like confetti about how much it cost them to, ahh, defend themselves against Saddam massave inventory of WMD's, but make no bones about it. We win and we're going keep the marbles.

Yeah, Doug, is was probably a 33 or 34 Ford...

Bobert