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12/9 If you dont' support us, you don't get the contract:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3305501.stm
This is all good except USA is panhandling the very same
nations which USA left out for reconstruction fund *AND*
debt restrucuring.
\_ Fuck em, if reconstructing their countries after WWII
and footing the defense bill for the entire Cold War was
not enough, let them rot in their socialists
constructs. Next time they need help...
\_ Err ... didn't know US helped reconstruct Russia
after WWII, and helped Russia during Cold War.
Must have been reading the wrong history books.
\_ Russia refused Marshall plan aid; it was offered. Sent
billions worth of war material during WWII; in return,
got its pilots interned. The US also sold a bunch of
nuclear reactors and massive amounts of food to the USSR
` during the cold war. Get over yourself.
And you, you illerate baboon, learn to troll. I'm
disappointed, bad show. 1941, after years of lend-lease,
hardly counts as "very late". I guess I should blame
the stellar chicom educational system for your poor grasp
of history and English grammar. Idiot. _
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Must be reading the wrong histroy books.
\_ declared war in 1941, only after attacked. not in
Africa until 1943. By then Soviet Union already
won the war, with wermacht on full retreat in the
eastern front. Me chicom? Nah, me front line
troops against chicom unlike US stay home slackers
like yourself.
\_ US is a fucking slacker during WWII, didn't
join the fight against facism until very late.
of defense.
It is US who should thank these countries for
serving as its front line troops and first line
of defense.
\_ Rest of the world is fucking slacker now, didn't join the
fight against religious fundamentalism at all. It is the
rest of the world who should thank the US for taking the
initiative.
\- this is consistent with why i felt the UN should tell the US
"we have no interest in bailing you out" ... you got yourself
into the swamp, now you can pay for it with your blood,
treasure and possibly electoral votes. --psb |
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| news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3305501.stm The Bush administration hinted - even before the conflict - that countries opposed to the war would pay a price when it came to a share in post-war reconstruction, says the BBCs Pentagon correspondent Nick Childs. Now, the Pentagon has published formal guidelines from Mr Wolfowitz confirming that companies from those countries cannot bid for new reconstruction contracts. It is necessary for the protection of the essential security interests of the United States to limit competition for prime contracts of these procurements to companies from the US, Iraq, coalition partners and force contributing nations, he said. Tit-for-tat response Mr Wolfowitz said he hoped that excluded firms would pressure their governments to join the post-war effort. The move is likely to anger France and Germany and other traditional allies in Nato and the UN Security Council. Procurement specialist Professor Steven Schooner, of George Washington University, said it was disingenuous to use national security as an excuse. This kind of decision just begs for retaliation and a tit-for-tat response, Reuters news agency quoted him as saying. But a defence official also quoted by Reuters said Nato partners who opposed the US-led conflict in Iraq had known for some time they would not get prime contracts. We still have many agreements with those countries and good working relationships with them. The announcement will appease countries such as Britain, Italy and Spain, which provided troops to Iraq but whose companies were excluded from the first round of deals that went to US firms. The biggest contractor in Iraq is Bechtel, the American construction firm that has an estimated $1bn contract to rebuild Iraqs infrastructure The other major US contractor is Kellogg, Brown & Root KBR, a subsidiary of the oilfield services company Halliburton. |