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U.S. Shuts Out France, Germany for Iraq Work
Reuters/Lycos.com ^
| December 09, 2003
| Sue Pleming
Posted on 12/09/2003 1:36:32 PM PST by veronica
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To: veronica
Good News for our side, and continued bad news for those who supported and still support the mass murdering $oddomite.
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posted on
12/09/2003 1:51:13 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(George Soros, the Evil Daddy Warbucks, has owned the Demonic Rats for decades!)
To: veronica
Companies likely to benefit most from the decision come from Britain, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, South Korea and Poland. Other supporters of the war effort include Albania, Bulgaria, Denmark, Honduras, Hungary, Kazakhstan and the Philippines. HHmmmm, I thought this was unilateral.
To: Shermy
Could be a corporate-welfare scam. Could be.
I was surprised at the strong criticism from the military about Bechtel's poor performance:
According to Iraqi education officials, Bechtel budgeted about $20,000 per school for repairs. That budget may not seem like much compared to U.S. rates, but laborers here work for $2 to $7 a day. Bechtel subcontracted out the work to Iraqis for an undisclosed amount.
During repairs, "reports started coming in about poor quality," said 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion Maj. Linda Scharf, who was responsible for the schools in question, and who started fielding calls from concerned teachers and headmasters.
"So I asked one of my teams to go verify the rumors," Scharf said. "They took their digital camera, and the reality turned out to be worse than the rumors."
What they found: The subcontractors Bechtel hired left paint everywhere - on the floors, on desks, all over windows. The classrooms were filthy, the school's desks and chairs were thrown out into the playground and left, broken. Windows were left damaged, and bathrooms that were reportedly fixed were left in broken, unsanitary condition.
"Would you allow your child to use that bathroom? I wouldn't," Scharf said, pointing to a photograph of a stained, broken hole in a dirty, tiled stall.
To: cars for sale
Kerry couldn't carry Ollie's jockstrap.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
They could teach classes in Iraq to remaining Saddam loyalists on "The Fine Art of Surrendering".
To: Imal
That is a great line.
"Must have been present during the war as an ally to win!"
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posted on
12/09/2003 1:54:49 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(George Soros, the Evil Daddy Warbucks, has owned the Demonic Rats for decades!)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Kerry couldn't carry Ollie's jockstrap. Only because Wesley has dibs.
To: veronica
Great news if this is true. The french and germans can go jump...did anyone see our beatiful First Lady Laura Bush on LKL last night? I just love that woman.
Red
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posted on
12/09/2003 1:56:59 PM PST
by
Conservative4Ever
(Dear Santa......I can explain.......)
To: happydogdesign
We need to talk....
I think we should just be friends...
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posted on
12/09/2003 1:58:29 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: veronica
Good! (But I thought this was statutorily required anyway?)
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posted on
12/09/2003 2:00:15 PM PST
by
Stultis
To: veronica
OK, here it is...
"I am deeply saddened..."
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posted on
12/09/2003 2:03:40 PM PST
by
CommandoFrank
(Peer into the depths of hell and there is the face of Islam!)
To: george wythe
It's our money, not the UN money, not the EU money, not the French money.We the people have borrowed Federal Reserve Notes and will payback some time in the next 100 years.
The Federal Reserve Bankers are into US for what 6 to 7 trillion dollars? Nice Loan, looks like they own US and your kids kids kids.
To: RedBloodedAmerican
In 2 out of 3 falls, mebby.
To: veronica
Great news:
U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has ruled that lucrative, prime contracts to rebuild Iraq must exclude firms from nations such as France and Germany that opposed the U.S. war effort...
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posted on
12/09/2003 2:36:11 PM PST
by
GOPJ
To: veronica
Fascinating bit of media slant here. Have a look at the context versus the headline and lead paragraph:
Lead:
U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has ruled that lucrative, prime contracts to rebuild Iraq must exclude firms from nations such as France and Germany that opposed the U.S. war effort, said a document released on Tuesday.
Context (what is actually happening):
The decision, while not identifying any countries by name, shuts out companies from nations that opposed the U.S. decision to invade Iraq and topple President Saddam Hussein without U.N. approval. Those countries may apply for subcontracts.
Now, I think this is great, but I find it not surprising that Reuters chooses to report it as "US hurts country X" instead of "US favors country Y".
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posted on
12/09/2003 2:39:49 PM PST
by
AzSteven
To: veronica
Good...ABB & Schneider will not be selling any of their wares over in Iraq...That means they will have to use Power Protection equipment built in the USA...
Equipment like this stuff:
http://www.selinc.com (Shameless plug for my employer hehehe)
To: Ragirl; veronica
<< Glad to hear this if it's true.....they deserve to be shut out of the UN too! >>
Nah.
They deserve each other and the un.
It's US who should be out of that gang of psychopathologically-hesperophobic, depraved and degenerate dictators, despots, liars, looters and dead and decadent EURO-peon dickheads.
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posted on
12/09/2003 3:00:24 PM PST
by
Brian Allen
( Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson)
To: MD_Willington_1976
Good...ABB & Schneider will not be selling any of their wares over in Iraq... ABB is "officially" Swiss I believe. I don't know where they stand on this. Siemens is German, but they do have a "US" organization -- Siemens/Westinghouse -- which employs somewhere around 10,000 Americans making utility size turbines, generators and such. I wonder what happens there?
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posted on
12/09/2003 3:07:19 PM PST
by
Ditto
( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
To: veronica; Ernest_at_the_Beach; MJY1288; Calpernia; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; BOBTHENAILER; ...
U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has ruled that lucrative, prime contracts to rebuild Iraq must exclude firms from nations such as France and Germany that opposed the U.S. war effort, said a document released on Tuesday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ping!
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posted on
12/09/2003 4:05:45 PM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
( "Our military is full of the finest people on the face of the earth." ~ Pres. Bush, Baghdad)
To: veronica
ROCK ON!!!!
Keeping france and germany out of this should teach them a lesson: You don't mess with the BEST!
God Bless America
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posted on
12/09/2003 4:08:15 PM PST
by
cyberjet31
(God Bless America)
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