Contracts for Iraq: Reverse the Pentagon's Decision

PNAC ^ | 12/11/03 | WILLIAM KRISTOL & ROBERT KAGAN

[Fledermaus]

On this issue, Kristol is on drugs! Both he and Kagan are 100% wrong on this.

Poor Bill must have been the brunt of bullies in his life and his daddy told him to bake them cookies.

Why doesn't he even CONSIDER it's the French and Russians that made their beds? And they even worked to HELP Saddam against us in the run up to, during, and after the war.

I guess we reward governments that worked hand in hand to supply a facists regime with weapons to KILL our soldiers.

I can see Kristol at home: "Hey honey, let's buy our neighbor that keeps killing our dogs a new car, then he'll love us and we can all get along".

What a spineless weasel. I know Fred Barnes doesn't buy into this crap, he said so on "Speical Report" last night.

[Fledermaus]

ROFL...I "updated it"!

"The Big Uncle Sam":

I've been attacked by fanatical terrorist on 9/11. We need to enforce the sanctions against state sponsors of terroism. Who is with me?

Not I said France.
Not I said Germany.
Not I said Russia.

Okay, so we got the 16th Resolution anyway, 1441. So who is with me to enforce Saddam with real military power?

Not I said France.
Not I said Germany.
Not I said Russia.

I see Uncle Sam has to fight. Who is with me and will help me defeat a world threat to our freedom?

Not I said France.
Not I said Germany.
Not I said Russia.

Okay, if you can't fight with me, who will support my cause with monetary help to stop this madman?

Not I said France.
Not I said Germany.
Not I said Russia.

Okay, I've won the war with a few buddies. Saddam is gone! We can all rejoice. So who will help me with the aftermath with money and security forces?

Not I said France.
Not I said Germany
Not I said Russia.

I have $18 billion to use to rebuild Iraq for the benefit of the Iraqis and all in the Middle East who want freedom. So who wants to help?

Oh, I will, said France.
And I will, said Germany.
And I will, said Russia.

[Fledermaus]

Canada has troops in Afghanistan and gave us about $800 million (hopefully not in Canadian dollars though - he he) for Iraq.

They should be allowed to bid. Germany is also in Afghanistan, but they should be warned and only allowed if they stop their ridiculous ways.

Russia can bite the big one. And France, in the words of Dennis Miller, should take out the dingy and go fishing with Fredo because "you are dead to me"!

[Fledermaus]

Bull. Screw Jim Baker!

[Billthedrill]

A truly wise American administration would have opened the bidding to all comers, regardless of their opposition to the war -- as a way of buying those countries into the Iraq effort, building a little goodwill for the future, and demonstrating to the world a little magnanimity.

A truly silly and wasteful administration would have done so. We aren't going to build one shred of goodwill with these countries - they opposed the intervention as much out of dislike of the U.S. as out of any principle. Kristol's idea, put in plain words, is that the government of the U.S. is to purchase the "goodwill" of these other countries by transferring U.S. taxpayer money to them, in order that they might profit by reconstructing what they previously profited by helping Saddam destroy. That is simply asinine.

[caisson71]

I'd agree to that.

[meenie]

Along with it, screw the American public by having to pick up more expense down the road in Iraq. A very noble insight.

[Broadside Joe]

Screw Kristol. With Baker headed over there I'd say that this is just another episode of good cop bad cop.

"Rumors persist that Baker was brought in to sweep out the Iraq architects, but it looks like they intend to go down fighting."

And rumors still persist that Kristol takes these shots because he's still a McCainiac.

[iconoclast]

You have to wonder about intellectuals sometimes.

I wonder about neo-cons ALL the time.

[Broadside Joe]

"President Bush, we suspect, is going to overrule the Pentagon's attempt to exclude from the bidding for Iraq reconstruction contracts certain countries that have opposed U.S. policy in Iraq. He might as well do it sooner rather than later, so as to minimize the diplomatic damage done by the Pentagon's heavy-handed and counterproductive action."

And this is bovine scatology. Kristol can really be a wimp sometimes. There is a lot more at stake here than 'hurt feelings'. Just look at how the euroweenies reacted when GW dropped the steel tariffs. The last thing we can afford to do now is cow-tow to them. This would only invite more backstabbing. Enough of the status quo, it's time to put these eurocrats back in their cage.

[Miss Marple]

This decision is a blunder. We trust it will be reversed.

Pretty full of themselves, aren't they? Kristol knows zilch about anything, least of all what the Bush administration is doing. I still think he is a mole, and I don't trust him as far as I could throw him.

[JohnGalt]

WOLFOWITZ’S PREMEDITATED BLUNDER

Should be an interesting couple of weeks ahead...

[RWR8189]

Barnes actually wrote a good piece in the Weekly Standard a few weeks ago lambasting "big government" conservatives.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1030929/posts