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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (17587)	4/24/2004 10:16:07 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

LOL...BCB, you had to get all the way down to #5 to get a toe hold for your rebuttal? LOL! Please tell me why we should be using our tax dollars to blow up Iraq in the first place? But since we already stepped into that bucket FOS, now we have to find ways to get some cooperation in Iraq. One of those ways would have been to allow contracts to be let to UN nations. This would have been a way to build the notion that all nations in the world have a stake in seeing a prosperous and free Iraq. And it would have begun to build relations between these nations and the country of Iraq. Your premise of equating rebuilding Iraq and sharing those rebuilding contracts with outsourcing doesn't hold water. What we need to do in Iraq is build relations. That can best be done by internationalizing the rebuilding and the peace keeping. As you know, not only US funds are being used in the rebuilding process, but you somehow expect that only US companies should have the contracts? In these one time contracts, for the purpose of rebuilding Iraq, it makes sense to let the most qualified and responsive bidders bid on the work, regardless of their country of origin. We should be using far more Iraqi people in the rebuilding process. Would you consider that outsourcing too? At a time when we had a chance to crack open the door to allow other countries to become involved in Iraq, which may have enticed other countries to participate in other ways, such as law enforcement and peace keeping, you are adamant that Bush keep on giving the gravy contracts to Haliburton, where the profits are high, and the accounting is fast and loose. This kind of contracting does not help the situation in Iraq, nor does it benefit our country either. Just more of the visionless, secretive behavior of this administration. Orca