[B5JMS] And So It Begins...

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From: Robert Perkins <rob_perkins at hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 19:48:25 GMT
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On Wed, 28 May 2003 18:01:18 GMT, kurtullman at yahoo.com (Kurt Ullman)
wrote:

>>I thought Halliburton won a small cleanup contract, nothing more. Am I
>>mistaken?
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>    No. They got the main contract. Of course a bunch of this is being farmed 
>out to other subcontractors. I suspect it would have been better if Ralph's 
>Vegetarian Poodle Clipping and Construction Company got the job instead.
>Of maybe some French or German COmpany (is Bechtel German?)

Very well. Which counterexample will show that Clinton's
administration did the same thing or something similar, that is, award
a contract to a company once led in part by a current government
office-holder?

Rob


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 29 May 2003 06:11:06 GMT
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>Very well. Which counterexample will show that Clinton's
>administration did the same thing or something similar, that is, award
>a contract to a company once led in part by a current government
>office-holder?

You gonna provide an example, or just throw it out there to muddy the waters (I
think this is called pettifogging) as a debating tactic with nothing to back it
up?  We've certainly done our part, we've shown our work...you gonna just say
this or back it up?

And it would have to be on the same scale, to be fair.

So?  There's a reason god invented google, y'know, and this is pretty much it.

 jms

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