How is contingency on receiving a grant in any way comparable to contingency on going to war and potentially decimating a country?? ...
Agreed on the "freedom fries" thing... We're hacked off because somebody else didn't support whatever it was we were doing, so lets take a minute out to change the name of something that matters less than not at all to them. This makes much sense. ike ------ Original Message ------ From: Haggerty, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Aug 28, 2003 02:15 PM Subject: RE: From the Washington Post: Halliburton's Deals Greater Than Th ought >I wouldn't worry about that, the government does a lot of RFPs for work >that is contingent on receiving grants, allocations, and the like. > >What I would worry about is the whole "Freedom Fries" thing. You mean to >tell me Congress has time to worry about the food in the cafeteria? That >must mean every single terrorist on this Earth locked up, chained away, >or buried, the economy is back on a track to fast growth and >unemployment is dropping, and our trade deficit is reduced to the point >where we are not paying out more than we take in for manufactured goods. >Because there is no way these guys are more concerned about what is in >the cafeteria than these real, important issues that affect us, our >children, and the future of the country. > >Priorities, people, are what we seem to have lost sight of. We must ask >what does this get us before we go around saying what is important. > >M > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:37 PM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: RE: From the Washington Post: Halliburton's Deals >> Greater Than Th ought >> >> >> I remember reading a news article that said the US had >> started taking bids for the reconstruction of Iraq... prior >> to any declaration of war or the deployment of any troops >> there... Which seemed not only backward in a business sense, >> but also just plain evil... It's like saying "don't worry, >> I've already started taking bids from Dr's to reconstruct >> your face after I smash it in with this lead pipe". >> >> ike >> >> ------ Original Message ------ >> From: Haggerty, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Aug 28, 2003 01:07 PM >> 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
