On his radio show yesterday, satirist Harry Shearer said that the British GUARDIAN reported that the US was going to end the UN food program in Iraq in January. Is there any truth to this? Jim
> Subject: [PEN-L] Quote du Jour: Paul Bremer on economic justice > > "I have to say that it is curious to me to have a country [like Iraq - > JB] whose per capita income, GDP, is about $800 ... that a county > that poor should be required to pay reparations to countries whose per > capita GDP is a factor of 10 times that for a war which all of the Iraqis who > are now in government opposed" > > - Paul Bremer (in reply to a question whether, given Iraq's weakened > economic condition, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia would accept a > delay in the compensation payments related to Hussein's invasion - the > external debt of Iraq is currently estimated at US$100 billion)
