Iraq and MONEY!

First of all, they should be pissed because there's no bidding process. Secondly, one shouldn't automatically bar any lower bidders without a better excuse than the one put forward by the White House and the Pentagon.

 

Will there is a bidding process this time. Ok you have that? bidding yes, there will be bidding.

Do I think the US taxpayer should be pissed, Yes, but at least leave it up to them to decide.

edit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/11/international/middleeast/11PREX.html?hp

So they are already waffling anyway relax.

 

It should have been that way out of the gate.

 

Don't worry it embarrasses me thoroughly.

I know all about Canada's involvement. I have a brother in the air force who was stationed in the UAE during the time of the invasion of Iraq. It was the Canadian governments stance that lead to the anti American attitude overall. Never mind the negative CBC coverage.(As per usual.)

Again Martin ought to be an improvement over Chretien. Chretien was an utter embarrassment. Reading your post you have an awfully different view of reality. Both the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties have overwhelmingly voted in favor of the creation of the Canadian Conservative Party. "Disintegration"??

http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=49E5B523-6785-4C04-88F7-8F80A20924C0

I am not going on about it with someone who has a skewed version of reality as you in any thread.

 

If it were that way, then I would say it's reasonable as well. But it seems what makes a difference is not whether you sent troops or took any such risk, but rather if you voted for or against in the UN. And in that case it does look a little childish.

 

Please byteme you make us all look like a bunch of jerks. Not to mention italy, spain, uk, poland, and may other european countries. Basically we are mad at france, and france is jealous of us b/c they want to be a big important country instead of something about as important as california, new york, or texas.

 

For someone hating muslims as much as you do I find your sudden care for Iraqis remarkable.

 

Ditto.

 

Meh, for people loving human rights so much, they sure got into a twist about the Iraq liberation.

 

Silly me for forgetting what a human rights paradise Iraq has become.

 

It hasn't been one for a long time, even pre-dating the two Gulf Wars.

As far as contracting goes and this topic, US and any other coalition forces that attacked Iraq then asked for UN and International funding help to rebuild it and the US is now saying it wants to censor certain countries from the prospect of making money in Iraq with contracts.

This has confused the international community. That is the only real problem. Iraq and human rights and whats best for its people etc, blah, whateva - isn't really being debated by the people that matter.

.... meh

 

AFAIK Iraq has no offical constitution, yet. Just sayin.

 

AFAIK having an "official constitution" isn't a guarantee of the protection of human rights, nor does not having one preclude it.

 

I prefer common law myself so in a sense I agree. But this time period is one of upheaval and change. Such a time you would expect less civility and rule of law. Particularly with these moron terrorist. Soon there will be a constitution in place and hopefully the rule of law prevails.

 

Mind if I puke?

You dont even know what Islam is, ever since the day you posted your rubbish about the Prophet being a 'terrorist' I have tried to ignore most of your idiotic political/religious rants.

You have zero credibility here, do you realise that?

 

Martin is going to be a disaster. His first priority is to repair 'strained US-Canada relations' I guess he wasn't paying much attention to how much public support Chretien got for his stance over Iraq now did he? So the first thing Paul is going to do is kiss Bush's ass. I suppose that's not a problem because he knows Canadians won't vote for the Alliance v2.0. So, Martin is basically set to do whatever the f*ck he wants without fear of a backlash come election day.

Here's an excerpt from a PC delegate in a riding in Ontario:

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[My emphasis added]

Hardly a ringing endorsement now isn't it? Does this truly indicate that support of the rank-and-file? I don't think so... Maybe people shouldn't put too much stock in this 90% support.

Now, I was actually shocked that Brison has left before Orchard and would have lost money on that bet (so I'm happy I didn't). I'm REALLY interested in hearing what Orchard has to say. Clarke has poo-pooed the new party and their are rumblings Elsie is leaving too. Mackay made a HUGE mistake with this merger. As someone pointed out, you don't see Alliance people dropping out now do we?

 

Take Egypt, for example. Oppressive Western-backed government (Mubarak has inherited a mess not of his own making mind you). How far did the 'people' get when standing up to them? Not far, and then we wonder why anti-Western sentiment is brewing. How far do you think any dissidents get in Saudi Arabia? Why, they get a one-way ticket to 'chop-chop' square and nary a peep from us.