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Old December 10, 2003, 11:57   #61
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Get over yourselves,

You don't want to go to war that is your right. However, don't delude yourselves that your companies would get involved in Iraq for the good of Iraqis. European buisness operates on the same motives as all other buisnesses, their own profit.
don't delude yourself that american companies are going over for the good of the iraqis.

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your total refusal to go to war to liberate the Iraqis
the initial charge to war had nothing to do with 'liberation'.
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Much ado about nothing. The spoils of war usually go to those who contribute.
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exactly.

canada did contribute though, especially with aid. granted, they didn't really support military action, but surely that aid should count for something ?
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Much ado about nothing. The spoils of war usually go to those who contribute.
Only in barbaric times.
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Old December 10, 2003, 12:04   #65
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exactly.

canada did contribute though, especially with aid. granted, they didn't really support military action, but surely that aid should count for something ?
I dunno why they aren't the list. Maybe it has to do with not liking Quebec?
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That's OK: we don't like Bush either.
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I'd be surprised if they would have wanted any reconstruction contracts. You're either out or in - and those places were definitely out.

There's also the sticky point of foriegn workers needing protection - none of those countries would depend on the coalition troops to protect them.
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There is no hurry in negociating construction contracts, the US Army is still demolishing buildings and houses not flatened in the first pass.
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It's quite laughable that the opposition against taking out Saddam now all of a sudden want to cash in on the contracts.

Well now it's too late to join the Coalition of the Billing.
It's quite laughable that the United States invaded Iraq in the first place to do the same thing -- cash in on contracts.
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As an American taxpayer, I have no problem with excluding companies from non-participating countries from being prime contractors on our portion of the aid. It's our $19 billion, after all.

The Canadians can direct their own aid dollars as they wish. If they want to exclude American companies, they are free to do so.

As for France, Germany, or Russia, why any crocodile tears would be shed for them for missing out on contracts for American aid dollars is beyond me.
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How much of that 20 Bil$ is going to Afghanistan?
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As for France, Germany, or Russia, why any crocodile tears would be shed for them for missing out on contracts for American aid dollars is beyond me.
And even still they can contest it on the basis of false justification namely "national security". They can simply claim that:

1) The allocation of said funds to such and such countries' companies but not to others is descriminatory.

2) The reason given is false.

And go to retaliational penalties. But I doubt they'd bother. Irony has some limits.

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i still don't understand why wolf said it was about security reasons.

i still see it as retaliatory, justified, but petty.
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I assume it's for internal consumption.
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How much of that 20 Bil$ is going to Afghanistan?
$1 billion, IIRC.
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i still don't understand why wolf said it was about security reasons.
It's pretty simple, really. They went against us on what we stated was a big security issue. It's not in our security interest to encourage that kind of behavior.
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That's hardly a discouragement either.

As I said internal consumption.
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2) The reason given is false.
Remember, M. Wolfowitz does not give reasons false, true, in-between or whatever, he gives bureaucratic reasons, easily acceptable by all parties (no need to be relevant or clearly connected).
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Wolfowitz is very warhawkish. Hilariously enough he is as much inept in foreign relations. Maybe that's not an accident.
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It's pretty simple, really. They went against us on what we stated was a big security issue. It's not in our security interest to encourage that kind of behavior.
whether it was a security issue or not was the crux of the debate, wasn't it?
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whether it was a security issue or not was the crux of the debate, wasn't it?
Well, we have consistently stated that Iraq was an important security issue. So it is.
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america doesn't exactly have fiat, you know? perhaps it was to us. i'm still not completely convinced of that.

obviously, europeans saw things a bit differently.
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I don't think Europeans can decide whether or not a situation is an important security issue to the US. That's probably best left to the US.
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I don't see why especially if it affects anyone else besides the US.
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the us should decide what's in its own best interest.

other countries should decide what's best in theirs.

perhaps to them, an attack on iraq was not the wisest nor best cours of action.

is that so hard to see?
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america doesn't exactly have fiat, you know? perhaps it was to us. i'm still not completely convinced of that.
Even if it wasn't, we said it was. So it was.
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yet another logical breakdown.
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Wolfowitz' remarks on national security obviously refered back to the US' assertion of Iraq as an important security issue, that's why Europe can't really argue in the context of reconstruction deals that it wasn't.
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Again it would have been fine if it had stayed at that declaration. From the moment it wasn't, it can.
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I wonder if the excluded countries can sue under the WTO and/or NAFTA (in the case of Canada)?
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