Oh, this is *good*.

[burntcopper]

Listening to the news on radio 4 - it's not up on the BBC website yet - but have you heard? They're doling out the contracts for rebuilding Iraq after the war, and you know who's been offered the 900 million contract? American companies only. Yep, you heard that right. Hello to the PR fuck-ups and not thinking before making decisions/statements, which has been an overriding trend of this administration.

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[themongkey.livejournal.com]

Bizarrely, two of the top links I found via Google News were Arab News (http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=23568) and The Hindu. (http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/03111416.htm)

But there is a BBC article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2837477.stm) too.

[minkboylove.livejournal.com]

And one of the companies bidding used to be owned by guess who? Dick Cheney!

What's the betting the bugger still has a sizeable stake in his company?

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

:shocked look: darling, how could you insinuate such a thing, from the administration which won because the vote was rigged?

[minkboylove.livejournal.com]

darling, how could you insinuate such a thing, from the administration which won because the vote was rigged?

Suspicious mind, I suppose. I'm turning into one of those unpatriotic conspiracy theorists.

That or I'm French. ;-)

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

:points wildly: Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey!

[minkboylove.livejournal.com]

Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries! ;-)