A public bidding process for "rebuilding Iraq" would have been suspicious, yes. But the service at hand is "feeding our troops" - I'm pretty sure that our troops need to be fed regardless of active combat status. ;^)
My complaint was with the example service given, not the reasoning behind the choice of contractor. If it is actually true that these fundamental services required "emergency decisions" then it seems quite clear to me that we were simply not ready to go to war. Jim Davis > -----Original Message----- > From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:07 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: From the Washington Post: Halliburton's Deals Greater Than Th > ought > > Well Jim, a public bidding process would probably have been somewhat > suspicious considering we were 'debating' whether or not to go to war... > > M > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 12:52 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: From the Washington Post: Halliburton's Deals > > Greater Than Th ought > > > > > > I understand your point, but chafe at the example. > > > > "Have the troops starve"? Are you seriously suggesting that > > we entered Iraq with no plan to feed our troops? That the > > only way to feed them was to forfeit legitimate processes for > > "last minute emergency decisions" involving politically > > valuable, no bid contracts? > > > > I'm sorry, but I always suspect unwarrantedly extreme > > arguments. They tend to mask illicit behavior. > > > > Jim Davis > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Heald, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:13 AM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: RE: From the Washington Post: Halliburton's Deals Greater > > Than Th > > > ought > > > > > > By having proved yourself on multiple deployments. > > > > > > These were last minute emergency decisions. Would you rather have > > seen > > > the > > > troops starve from not have the proper logistics in place? > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 10:53 AM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: From the Washington Post: Halliburton's Deals Greater Than > > > Thought > > > > > > > > > Kevin Schmidt wrote: > > > > > > > >Haliburton is the best at what it does, period, that's they win > > > >contracts. > > > > > > How do you win a "no bid" contract? > > > > > > Jochem > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
