See this story . The White House is asking France, Germany and Russia to write off Iraq's debt. FGR, on the other hand are incensed that the US has the gall to ask them for this favour after excluding them from reconstruction conttracts.

Does this disgusting conflict remind you of vultures? Of a bunch of robbers fighting on how to divide the loot?

I think it is appropriate to quote Fidel Castro's description of European powers:
A group of old colonial powers historically responsible for slave trafficking, looting and even the extermination of entire peoples

So, these old colonial powers, smarting from the humiliation of having been usurped by a new imperial power, assume they have a right to the plunder in Iraq. The new headman of the robbers, the US, is going to punish them for not being loyal. How low can people sink?