U.S. bars Iraq war opponents from bidding on $18.6 billion in contracts

AP | 12/10/03 | MATT KELLEY

[nutmeg]

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[Howlin]

Classic. Finally! To the victor go the spoils!

[Grampa Dave]

Now France and Germany find out another meaning of:

"You are either with us or against us!"

[Howlin]

Send them another message, too: ESAD.

[Mo1]

The ruling bars companies from U.S. allies such as France, Germany and Canada from bidding on the contracts because their governments opposed the American-led war that ousted Saddam Hussein's regime.

Well ... alls far in love and war

After all these people did behind our backs and all the attacks .. did they really think they could be a part of the rebuilding ??

[At _War_With_Liberals]

I'll be cautious and celebrate after the contracts are given out only tou our allies. The Dims will fight this.

[bitcon]

"If these comments are accurate ... it would be difficult for us to give further money for the reconstruction of Iraq," said Canada's deputy prime minister, John Manley. "To exclude Canadians just because they are Canadians would be unacceptable if they accept funds from Canadian taxpayers for the reconstruction of Iraq."

Steven Hogue, a spokesman for Prime Minister Jean Chretien, said Canada has contributed more than $190 million to the rebuilding effort.


I'm Canadian and I'm happy to say as of Friday no more Chretien or (un)Manley.

[Bogey78O]

Socialists hate the stock market because they want gain without risk.

The same applies here. As long as they had nothing to lose they would help out. When they have nothing to gain but everything to lose suddenly "morality" isn't that high of a priority.

[Mo1]

The Dems fight everything .. always have .. always will

[Bogey78O]

We'll put that 190 million from them in the 87 billion dollar pile we have going. If they want it back though I don't see how we'd manage. /sarcasm

[PianoMan]

Something about this article is fishy. A "directive" from Wolfowitz? Is it just coincidence that an order that will surely infuriate the France/Germany/Peacenik crowd is attributed, rather non-specifically, to the one government figure they hate the most?

I dunno, it looks like AP is setting up the hated Wolfowitz here.

But, I certainly approve 100% of the directive, whatever the deal really is.

[bitcon]

I know it will be hard but I'm sure you could manage. All the Canadian gov't had to do was say that they supported removing Saddam. Of course they're liberals so they don't want to have consequences for their words or actions.

[LayoutGuru2]

Sweet! As it should be!

[Gracey]

"You are either with us or against us!"

Didn't President Bush say

"You're either with us... or... you're with the Terrorists"

That's my recollection, but I could be wrong.

[veronica]

Now France and Germany find out another meaning of: "You are either with us or against us!"

Haw haw.

[kabar]

The Pentagon has formally barred companies from countries opposed to the Iraq war from bidding on $18.6 billion worth of reconstruction contracts.

This is media spin. The directive "limits bidders on those 26 contracts to firms from the United States, Iraq, their coalition partners and other countries which have sent troops to Iraq." It means that if you sent troops, you can bid. That is far different than using a litmus test "if you opposed the Iraq War." There may be countries that supported the action, but they have not supplied troops. They can't bid. Seems fair enough to me.

[George W. Bush]

Revenge is so sweet.

[nicmarlo]

The ruling bars companies from U.S. allies such as France, Germany and Canada from bidding on the contracts because their governments opposed the American-led war that ousted Saddam Hussein's regime.

Pay back time! : )

[nicmarlo]

Myers and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld cautioned, however, that a recent decline in anti-coalition attacks in Iraq may be temporary.

Does this decline in attacks correlate with President Bush's visit on Thanksgiving?