Payback - French, Germans and Russians barred from Iraq contracts

[Skyjack666]

Originally posted by Ramo
What's more alarming than shutting the Euros out is that we tend not to use Iraqi contracters even when they can get the job done cheaper, and we're giving contracts to notoriously anti-union businesses.

Germany a France do not "the Euros" make.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Skyjack666


Germany a France do not "the Euros" make.

Really?

[Skyjack666]

Originally posted by GePap
Actually, if the French find that this violates terms of the WTO, they can take the US to court.

And they can refuse to forgive any of Iraq's debt to them as well, like the Russians might.

YIPES!

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Skyjack666
Germany a France do not "the Euros" make.

What about Finland? We've banned them too.

[Ned]

Well, GePap, I do admit that Baker's mission to resturcture Iraqi's debt will fall on deaf ears in the lands of the weasels -- unless, that is, he can offer them something in return. Perhaps this is why they were excluded in the first place -- so that Baker might have some bargaining chips.

[Skyjack666]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
What about Finland? We've banned them too.

Things are looking up, then!

[GePap]

Originally posted by Skyjack666


YIPES!

So the Russians might loose out on a few hundread million dollars (ditto for either French or German companies), but then they get to say "screw you US, Iraq has to pay back all the billions they owe us, and don;t ask us to forgive the debts"-now, how does this help the Iraq situation?

It doesn't. But its not like you want the situation in Iraq to get better, right?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Ned
Well, GePap, I do admit that Baker's mission to resturcture Iraqi's debt will fall on deaf ears in the lands of the weasels -- unless, that is, he can offer them something in return. Perhaps this is why they were excluded in the first place -- so that Baker might have some bargaining chips.

What chips? The contracts thier companies might get are dawrved by the size of Iraq's debts. Do you think Russian companies woud be given 8 billion dollars worth of these contracts? What the US needs is goodwill and trust-and we just lost a good chunk of that.

Anyone who thinks this would make people join so they can partake in a 19 billion dollar pool is an idiot. Plain and simple.

[Skyjack666]

Originally posted by GePap


So the Russians might loose out on a few hundread million dollars (ditto for either French or German companies), but then they get to say "screw you US, Iraq has to pay back all the billions they owe us, and don;t ask us to forgive the debts"-now, how does this help the Iraq situation?

It doesn't. But its not like you want the situation in Iraq to get better, right?

Well, then, that's on THEIR conscience...if they have one.
And since when did they care about the situation? They let the madness go on unabated along with the rest of us. As long as they could do business with Soddom, they were OK with anything that went on.

[Bereta_Eder]

They've banned Finland. Way to go....

Just wait 'till Pekka gets here. Although he'll propably blame his communist regime.

[Ramo]

Interesting eye-witness perspective on the Iraqi contract racket (as well as the occupation in general):

http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-mideast-politics&month=0312&week=a&msg=YBOTLovsCK1KbOC0MJGLyw&user=&pw=

[Ramo]

Well, then, that's on THEIR conscience...if they have one.
And since when did they care about the situation? They let the madness go on unabated along with the rest of us. As long as they could do business with Soddom, they were OK with anything that went on.

So you're ok with the US acting like petulant childrend and ****ing over the Iraqis?

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by GePap
Do you think Russian companies woud be given 8 billion dollars worth of these contracts? What the US needs is goodwill and trust-and we just lost a good chunk of that.

Anyone who thinks this would make people join so they can partake in a 19 billion dollar pool is an idiot. Plain and simple.

You raise a good point Gepap. There isn't that much to gain by these contracts for these nations. The only ones who will gain are the individual companies. The Bush administration does a great disservice to the US and a great service to US corporations.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Ramo
Interesting eye-witness perspective on the Iraqi contract racket (as well as the occupation in general):

http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrow...GLyw&user=&pw=

So true. The Bush administration is ****ing over the Iraqis and the US taxpayers.

[Q Classic]

shut up, you leftie scum. bush can do no wrong. profit is still different from an unfair tax. and what halliburton, bechtel, and bush and d1ck are doing in iraq is perfectly legal and fair, seeing as we were the ones who dealt with the security threat that we constructed and now must reconstruct to prevent it from becoming a future threat.