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Originally posted by tomlong
It is not anti-american propaganda it is anti-war propaganda. Why are they posting it you ask. Well I have had other conversations with you where you have stated that our media only shows and says what the government tells them to(censorship). I have continuously stated that our media takes objective views from both sides and we are all not brainwashed as you think. I frankly dont care if the large majority of New Zealands tiny populous is against this war. You can believe what you like about our president that is your right. Myself being an American citizen can tell you that the majority of our large populous support what we are doing. You can sit on your island believing whatever you like it just takes us back to the well used phrase ignorance is bliss until it creeps up and takes out your kneecaps. You say that Iraq and the terrorists it harbors represent no threat to the U.S. or any countries outside the middle east. What did Bali do to deserve the terrorist attack? You will be asking yourself many of these questions when terror strikes your country. You have also stated in other posts that all americans are republicans. This is by far correct. You act as if you know so much about how our president does his job. The truth of the matter is that our presidents approval ratings are higher than almost any president ever. These ratings are decided by the 280 million people who live in our country. You complain about U.S. companies working to rebuild the Iraqi infrastructure. Well if there was another country out there that knew how to run an economy half as well as our companies maybe somebody else would be doing it. How many billion dollar companies are in New Zealand? My guess would be very few.
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I hate to jump into the conversation but I think that the point here is how the contracts were awarded......the first article listed by Taranaki stated that the port contract was awarded on a "no bids" basis.
This means that multiple companies were not allowed to tender for the contract, merely a company was"selected" (in this case a company formerly run by Dick Cheney). In normal order of business, this would be seen as anti-competitive, and a normal company could be prosecuted for doing as such.
As for a government, I presume there isn't really any kind of international law to stop this from happening.
I'd actually be interested to know how it is under Bush's authority to award contracts in a foreign country anyway....unless that authority is derived from having the most guns in the Streets of Basra, which implies things far darker than "anti-competitiveness" on behalf of the US.