Hi GV, RE: RE: (my comment) "1.5B windfall sort of has the appearances of going to Bush & Cheney's industry buddies. Will even UK get screwed? RE: "Amy, but I think you're off base here."
Sarcasm aside, I don't think so - a relative is an exec at Halliburton.
Industry execs (oil, etc.) were VERY surprised they didn't get the contracts in Iraq after GWI.
After GWI, industry execs were expecting to get the contracts, but were very surprised when France got them instead (this is one of the reasons why Fr is against this war - Fr'll lose their contracts & loans.)
I have an email that'll show you a report from UN indicating the USA is expected to gain the Iraq contracts for GWII as a windfall to the current war. Personally, I'm surprised the UN or USA doesn't at least do Bush-like lip-service to other foreign countries (such as UK, etc.) by awarding them at least a "PR token" amount of tiny contracts. Having the windfall come all our way, looks bad from a PR perspective.
But when is the USA gov't ever good at PR? /* sarcasm on */ e.g. I read, Rumsfield reportedly asks the USA media to block out some info, so the net net of his actions, is folks run off to check out foreign ezines to get information - haaretz, guardian, arabnews, etc. He doesn't come across as Internet saavy, even if he's involved in the Pyra blogs.
Let's hope CNN never caves into Mr.$65B-Military-Complex-King-Rumsfield - so far they haven't - they certainly seem to report better information. Do you know if our gov't penalizes a USA media entity, if they don't report information the way our gov't wants them to, by witholding early access to immediate information? /* sarcasm off */
Regards,
Amy J |
