"Anyone care to speculate why countries who were against this war are so quick to forgive debt?"
1.) Iraq will be in no position to pay anything
for a long time, if ever.
2.) Promises cost nothing, and may be worth
some little US quid pro quo.
3.) When debt negotiations finally open they
will be able to demand something real in
return, like payment in kind (oil).
4.) As capitalist states they are not going to
challenge the established international
order by pointing out the illegality and
illegitimacy of the US occupation of Iraq
and of its Iraqi Quislings.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64