No, they’re not.
“Creditor nations have agreed to a proposal from the US and Germany to slash Iraq’s debts to them by 80%.”
Might as well be big about it, they haven’t got a snowball’s chance to collect. Writing off a debt makes a nice gesture to the US, and they aren’t giving up anything anyway.
Since someone bumped this thread:
Bullshit.
Galloway wins £150,000 damages as judge lambasts ‘Daily Telegraph’
By Jonathan Brown and Robert Verkaik
03 December 2004
George Galloway won a comprehensive victory in the High Court yesterday in his libel trial against The Daily Telegraph over reports that he was in the secret pay of Saddam Hussein.
The former Labour MP was awarded £150,000 in libel damages by the High Court and later claimed the newspaper had been administered a “judicial caning”. He was also granted costs against the Telegraph, which faces a bill of more than £1.2m. Mr Justice Eady denied the paper permission to appeal, although Telegraph lawyers are expected to seek the right directly from the Court of Appeal over liability and the “excessive” scale of the damages.
Uh, Desmo , if you check post #29 , that’s why the thread was bumped; to post an article about the vindication of Galloway.