Russia barred from Iraq contracts

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.gateway2russia.com/st/art_180023.php

Russia has been excluded from competing for $18.6bn in prime contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq. The same happened to Germany and France.

This information is contained in a directive issued by Paul Wolfowitz, the US Deputy Defense Secretary, the News York Times reports. This will allow the members of the coalition to unite their efforts in the restoration of Iraq, it is said in the document.

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[gmoney]

1. Campaign Contributors only...

I thought it was official policy that only GWB's campaign contributors get contracts.

Aren't IRAQI companies excluded as well?

Bloody imperialists...

[saigon68]

8. They still can sell AK's and AKM's to the Resistence

They are far from out of "future" contacts.

[La_Serpiente]

2. You can add Canada onto that list as well

they've just been banned.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. Let's see...France, Germany, Russia, and Canada. Otherwise known...

...as:

How to initiate an anti-U.S. containment alliance in a few easy steps.

[hadrons]

4. and yet, James Baker is trying to get them to forgive Iraq's debts ...

unbelieve the stupidity and sickness of Bush and his supporters ... maybe trading oil for Euro won't look to bad to Poot-put now

[modrepub]

5. Didn't we

go begging for these countries to contribute money or forgive massive amounts of Iraqi debt? I hope these guys have learned that you just can't play nice with this misAdministration. My advice, take your grants home and send the bill collector....

They have created a desert and called it peace...

Tacitus

[scisyhp]

6. Anybody calculated how much this narrowing of competition

will cost American taxpayers? That is nothing but a blatant robbery,
with the extra no-competition profits being simply stolen from
American people by a handful of well-connected corporations.

[Say_What]

7. New Bridge Strategies, LLC -Joe M. Allbaugh, Chairman and Director

Former Director of the FEMA under Bush. Check this website and the principals out... a unique company created specifically to take advantage of business opportunities in the Middle East :puke:

<clips>

New Bridge Strategies, LLC is a unique company that was created specifically with the aim of assisting clients to evaluate and take advantage of business opportunities in the Middle East following the conclusion of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Its activities will seek to expedite the creation of free and fair markets and new economic growth in Iraq, consistent with the policies of the United States Government. The opportunities evolving in Iraq today are of such an unprecedented nature and scope that companies seeking to work in that environment must have the very best advice and guidance available. The New Bridge Strategies team has been carefully constructed to fill that need.

http://www.newbridgestrategies.com/index.asp

[LiberalFighter]

9. Gee weren't "Bush and Putin 'best of buddies'" ?

Bush and Putin 'best of buddies'

"The more I get to know President Putin" he said, "the more I get to see his heart and soul ...the more I know we can work together in a positive way".

/snip/

Though a teetotaller, President Bush toasted his guest, noting that in Texas "you only invite a good friend to your home".

/snip/

In response Mr Putin replied the US was "fortunate at such a critical time in its history to have such a man of character at its helm".

/snip/

"The best diplomacy starts with getting to know each other," Mr Bush said, adding, "I knew that President Putin was a man with whom I could work to transform the relationship between our two countries."