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What’s the difference between Saddam’s Iraq and the Cayman Islands?

Not much, apparently.

Wait. Scratch that. The Caymans are worse. Must be. Whereas The Left decried sanctions against Saddam’s Iraq, I don’t think they’re gong to make much noise — unless it’s celebratory — over this:

Tax havens that refuse to share information with other countries will face “sanctions” under an agreement being thrashed out at the G20 summit on Thursday, a British finance minister said.

“I am expecting there to be sanctions against countries that don’t sign up,” Stephen Timms, financial secretary to the Treasury, told reporters on the sidelines of the summit in London.

“In due course there will be a list produced of countries that don’t sign up… what’s being discussed today is the timing, he said, promising: “The era of banking secrecy is over.”

Liechtenstein and Switzerland caved even before the G20 summit. Maybe they could have avoided sanctions if they kept banking secrecy laws but also started supporting terrorists and murdering their own citizens.

H/T: Ace.

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