[doosee]

On the other hand, President Bush must take great care not to be seen passing out spoils to his Texas oil cronies as souvenirs of his Baghdad invasion

No matter which American oil company gets chosen for Iraqi oil contracts, the left will be screaming that it is an inside job. I say screw them all and award the contracts to the low bidders amongst ALL coalition countries.

[nopardons]

Just as long as we keep France, Germany, and Russian out of the " spoils " game, I don't care which company makes money from this.

[Mr. Thorne]

Right. I know Halliburton has a contract already. They were showing this on Cavuto the other day.

Some wimpy 'can't we all get along' type was saying this looks like cronyism. Then they showed the companies who could handle the rebuilding (which, I guess, Halliburton already has the plans and equipment for, since they bought up the smaller company years ago).

The companies in question: French, German and Canadian.

Now, are we still wondering why Halliburton got the contract?