FWIW, they never said that they would get rid of all the 2009 debt by March... it was speculated/rumored by several on this and other boards. But it was never stated that they would definately do it -- if anything, they may have said that they "hoped" to do it by then, but that doesn't mean that plan on it.
In the current climate, there is no lawyer anywhere that would allow any officer of a company to make such a definitive statement.
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