[isthisnickcool]

One word:

STRATEGERY

[Shermy]

Ping.

[marron]

Henceforth Halliburton (NYSE:HAL - News), a company with close ties to the Bush administration, should compete for contracts on an open and level playing field, as should other U.S. companies.

Halliburton is competing. Under US law, they had to compete against a number of other companies, as did Bechtel. This job is big enough that other companies will be brought in, either subcontracted to these two or in their own right. And you can bet that foreign companies will be invited to compete. There is a list of about 40 countries whose offers will be entertained sympathetically.

France will probably not be on that list while Chirac remains in office.