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Iraq Rebuilding Contracts Awarded (to Haliburton - Cheney's former employer) (pg. 3)
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| AnotherWay83 |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
A contract for what?? You mean like the deed to the city? I don't know why a company would want such a thing ... |
damn the article was even in cnn and the nytimes...cant locate it now...basically the company had been given the contract to i think rebuild and then control the port at Umm Qasr...but the british wanna give it back to the Iraqis |
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| Az |
| quote: | Originally posted by AnotherWay83
but the british wanna give it back to the Iraqis |
damn right we do  |
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| JudgeJulez |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
Well of course the companies are doing it for the money!! They wouldn't be in business for very long otherwise! It's not like the Iraqi people are paying for all of this, it's all coming out of the 2.4 billion dollar reconstruction package going to Iraq to rebuild its infrastructure. And Az yes at a hefty profit for the company but at a great deal of cost to the government! |
I do hope that construction package is legit, and that the money goes to the right places. Are any details of the reconstruction proposal actually available, coz it would be interesting to see what the rebuilding priorities are for the US in Iraq. Anyways, I just hope the same case doesn't happen here as did in reconstruction in Japan after the Pacific, where the Japanese ended up paying for basically all of American occupation; cost them something like 25% of the entire national budget, even during times of famine. |
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| occrider |
It's nice when conspiracy theories don't pan out ...
http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsA...storyID=2469627
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Halliburton Out of Race for Iraq Deal
Fri March 28, 2003 07:32 PM ET
By Jonathan Wright
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Energy and construction company Halliburton Co. HAL.N is out of the running for a massive U.S. government contract for reconstruction in Iraq, the Agency for International Development (AID) said on Friday.
AID official Timothy Beans told Newsweek magazine that Halliburton, once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, was not one of the two finalists short-listed for the contract.
"I can confirm the information that the director of our procurement office (Beans) shared with Newsweek," said AID spokeswoman Ellen Yount. Halliburton is the second-largest oilfield services firm in the world.
The contract, which AID is expected to award within days, is expected to be worth up to $600 million and it covers repairing Iraqi health services, ports and airports, and schools and other educational institutions, an official said.
"There has been no final decision made on who will be awarded the capital construction contract," Yount added.
Halliburton was one of five companies invited to bid for the contract under an expedited procurement process which was restricted to companies with security clearances.
The other companies were Bechtel Group Inc., Fluor Corp. FLR.N , Parsons Corp. and Louis Berger Group Inc.
Newsweek said it was not clear if Halliburton removed itself from the running, was asked by the Bush administration to do so or if its bid was not considered competitive.
But it quoted Beans as saying: "If I got a phone call from anybody putting any political pressure on me, I would report it immediately to Natsios, as I've been instructed to do."
A Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg Brown and Root, also known as KBR, said on Monday it had won a U.S. government contract to assess and extinguish oil well fires in Iraq.
Halliburton has a long history of involvement in military logistical support for the U.S. government.
A U.S. lawmaker wrote to the military on Wednesday asking why it had awarded the contract to KBR.
In a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, sought details of the wartime contract, and inquired why the administration had not allowed other companies to bid on it.
The restricted invitations to bid for the Iraqi contractors has also angered foreign companies, although the money will come from U.S. taxpayers, not from any Iraqi source.
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| DaveSaenz |
| quote: | Originally posted by AnotherWay83
damn the article was even in cnn and the nytimes...cant locate it now...basically the company had been given the contract to i think rebuild and then control the port at Umm Qasr...but the british wanna give it back to the Iraqis |
They should.....:gsmile: |
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| DrUg_Tit0 |
Here's another interesting thing:
There's an initiative in the american congress that when developing post-war cellular networks in Iraq, only american technologies should be taken into account. So instead of the globally popular european GSM standard, which is also used by all of the Iraqi neighbours, Iraq should only be allowed to use the american CDMA technologies. |
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| LiquidX |
| quote: | Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0
Here's another interesting thing:
There's an initiative in the american congress that when developing post-war cellular networks in Iraq, only american technologies should be taken into account. So instead of the globally popular european GSM standard, which is also used by all of the Iraqi neighbours, Iraq should only be allowed to use the american CDMA technologies. |
I smell American Monopoly?:conf: |
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| LiquidX |
| Halliburton out because of interest conflicts that may arise for Bush.:p |
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| JudgeJulez |
^^^^
They could still get a sub-contract though |
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| LiquidX |
| quote: | Originally posted by JudgeJulez
^^^^
They could still get a sub-contract though |
I know..:whip: |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0
Here's another interesting thing:
There's an initiative in the american congress that when developing post-war cellular networks in Iraq, only american technologies should be taken into account. So instead of the globally popular european GSM standard, which is also used by all of the Iraqi neighbours, Iraq should only be allowed to use the american CDMA technologies. |
Does Iraq even have a cellular network as is? And I don't get one thing ... if we're gonna build and pay for the cellualar network, WHY WOULD WE BUILD IT WITH EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY??? Boooo hooo they have to use cdma! Oh the inhumanity of it all! You know what I also hear that the evil american government is going to do???? I hear they're gonna set up direct tv networks in Iraq instead of the dish! ATROCIOUS!!! |
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