What irony! If there could have been any
"justification" for America invading Iraq, it was because
Saddam was excluding US and UK oil corporations from development
contracts in the rich oilfields of northern Iraq.
What's up with the Bush team? Are they going mad? Those whom
the Gods wish to destroy .............
I think the Bush team is falling to pieces. Consider. Two days ago,
Powell wanted NATO to help with the occupation of Iraq. Now the Pentagon
comes out with this (below). Of course, this could seen as an immediate
riposte to NATO turning him down (or, rather, expressing
reservations).
No, I think the members of the Bush team are now staggering about from
one decision to another with little coordination of strategy. They're in
a schizophrenic state. They really don't know what to do in Iraq.
(Besides, why are they thinking about reconstruction contracts when they
should be applying themselves to the prime objective of bringing about an
Iraqi government by July?)
I repeat my guess of a couple of days ago. I think Powell (and perhaps
Condee) will resign soon. Then the team will really be seen to be falling
apart.
Now that Howard Dean is overwhelmingly the Democratic front-runner, it's
possible that there'll now be a tidal wave of opinion against Bush. I'm
amazed that America has been so supine over the invasion so far --
considering Vietnam (and soon, being kicked out of
Afghanistan).
Keith Hudson
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PENTAGON BARS THREE NATIONS FROM IRAQ BIDS
Douglas Jehl
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 The Pentagon has barred French, German and Russian
companies from competing for $18.6 billion in contracts for the
reconstruction of Iraq, saying it was acting to protect "the
essential security interests of the United States."
The directive, issued Friday by Paul D. Wolfowitz, the deputy defense
secretary, represents the most substantive retaliation to date by the
Bush administration against American allies who opposed its decision to
go to war in Iraq.
from New York Times -- 10 December 2003
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Keith Hudson, Bath, England,
<www.evolutionary-economics.org>
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