And now they're going to have to sleep in it. The (elected) head of the Iraqi Kurds says that French and Russian oil contracts with Saddam's regime should expire with him, and it.

French and Russian oil and gas contracts signed with the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq "will not be honored," Kurdish Prime Minister Barhim Salih said in Washington Friday, just before a series of high-level meetings with Bush administration officials.

"A new Iraqi government should not honor any of these contracts, signed against the interests of the Iraqi people. The new Iraqi government should respect those who stood by us, and not those who stood beside the dictator," Salih added.

Pretty simplisme, eh?