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Thread #57846   Message #913297
Posted By: Greg F.
19-Mar-03 - 08:02 AM
Thread Name: BS: Should Saddam comply with Resolutions?
Subject: RE: BS: Should Saddam comply with Resolutions?
"We've got too much money; we're looking for toys
Guns will be guns, and boys will be boys
But we'll gladly pay for all we've destroyed
"Cause we're the cops of the world, boys
We're the cops of the world."
       -Phil Ochs

But no longer, apparently. Now the US is going to have Iraq pay for the destruction & havoc it creates.

Once again: Stand Tall, America!
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Iraqi Oil Money Slated to Pay for Relief

By DAFNA LINZER, Associated Press
Last updated: 7:41 a.m., Wednesday, March 19, 2003

UNITED NATIONS -- The United States and Britain are drafting a plan to use Iraqi oil proceeds in a $40 billion U.N.-controlled account to pay for humanitarian relief during a war, The Associated Press has learned.

The plan would ease Washington and London's financial responsibilities for caring for the millions of Iraqis likely to be affected by the fighting...
FULL STORY HERE