Beer God

Companies who are now getting the contracts to rebuild Iraq, are US companies who donated large sums of money to the Republican Party and these contracts have been negotiated in secret. UK firms are only allowed to bid on sub-contracting work.

Firms that gave to Bush get contracts

peacenik

This should not be a surprise. The bidding process was rigged from the outset to reward GOP firms at the expense of the American taxpayers through a secretive bidding process. ABC ran a story on this on March 22, 2003. The problem is that no one in the corporate media ever put two and two together to tell the American people the whole story. They only provide snipets of the truth unless of course it is beneficial to their side to provide all of the relevant context behind a particular event.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/W...act030322.html

Happy Wonderer

It is sort of an interesting thing -- our tax money goes to blow things up and now our tax money goes to put them back together. Sort of like a 'make work' program in a prison camp. One day they make you dig a ditch, the next they make you fill it back in.

hw

Not that I have any non-literary experience at prison camps...

McDiggy

http://www.observer.co.uk/internatio...935689,00.html

This company just sounds so charming and campassionate..:banghead:

McDiggy

dp

Never

Wow. I don't even know what to say to that. Just mind boggling.

HaysooChreesto!

Why is this so mind boggling? Corporations give money to both sides in a presidential campaign. It's nothing new. If I gave big $ to a political campaign out of my business I would certainly expect some favors in return.
This isn't something that's peculiar to Bush or the Republican party.
The question though; is it ethical or moral? For the most part I think not. But this gets into campaign finance reform and whatnot and is off the topic.

Popemon

Lamma,

I agree with you. This is not mind-boggling. However, the fact that it is standard operating procedure just makes me more angry every time I see something like this on either side.

All the more reason to get serious about changing things. Let's start supporting some real changes.

Zar

Bingo. It is so futile to sit in the "Democrat" or "Republican" camp anymore. It is the blind leading the blind. I find many Democratic websites and publications to be sickeningly impotent, silly, juvenile and pointless, while Republican tirades are a steady stream of vacuous, inhuman unreality, schoolyard insults, and theological apologetics. I really disdain talking to blindly committed party people because they really can't see that an attack on one president is not an endorsement of another. Nothing outside their doctrinal blinders exists.