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To: Keith Feral who wrote (207128)	10/27/2006 4:25:35 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>> If the US is supplying all of the money for any restructuring, we should naturally be allowed to award the contracts to US companies. I think you missed the point. They were not assigning US contracts. Bremer was rewriting the Iraqi charter as the Capitalists Manifesto and promising Iraqi oil and future revenues to US corporations. >> It would be ridiculous for US money to go to French oil companies to rebuild the oil infrastructure in Iraq. You think so?! Personally I believe the US government has no funds of its own and is simply the trustee of the public funds. As such it should award those funds only to the essential projects and then only to the most cost effective contenders. If a French company can do the job cheaper, then that is who should get the money. The government has no right to be freehanded and liberal with my money! >> I fail to see what the US has won in Iraq You and I both! But it is clear that the government cronies have won a lot. Have you followed on the corruption and mismanagement of American public's funds in Iraq?