From: Adam Flinton 

Tony Ingenoso wrote:
> The fact that wiring up a country costs a bit of money leaps quickly to
> mind.  The Iraq power grid is all French gear.  The Russians were also
> heavily invested in Iraqi civil engineering projects.
>

&? Good for them.

> Why on earth do you assume Iraqi debt is due to weapon sales?

I'm not making any assumptions.

If you want exact facts & figures they are publically available as your
own gov has had them detailed so they can persuade the relevant govs to
write off the weapons debts as being "odious".

Try looking them up.

> Maybe this
> speaks more to your own twisted outlook on the world than anything that went
> on in Iraq.
>

Nope, it just shows how massively out of touch with reality you are.


Adam

> "Adam"  wrote in message
> news:42d92bee$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>Let's take a load of the Russian/Soviet arms exports to say Syria or
>>Iraq. Why are those debt still there if it's "strictly cash on the
>>barrel head"?
>
>

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