Bliar?

much shorter war though

Is Tony Blair a liar?

Germany was hardly a wilderness when the war ended.

I didn't say that.

I said an Iraqi company should be set up and helped by the coalition thus helping to rebuild Iraq.

At the moment most of the profits from rebuilding Iraq are going to America.

i appreciate that, but there is little you can do when those companies are far more capable. the primary objective is to get the country back on its feet.


Bechtel Signs First Iraqi Firm to Construction Subcontract (5/30/2003)

KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT (Friday, May 30, 2003)—Bechtel today signed its first subcontract with an Iraqi company under its prime contract supporting USAID's Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction Program. The scope of work of the subcontract is to design and construct a bridge bypass of about 1.5 km in length for a critical highway in the western part of the country.

Al-Bunnia Trading Company, a 93-year-old Baghdad-based construction firm, will work with Bechtel supervisors to provide field engineering services and construct the bypass on Highway 10 near the war-damaged Al Mat Bridge, which is located about 300 km west of Baghdad and 180 km from the Jordanian border.

a war in which Germany was the largest power.

a war in which Germany was the largest power.

and...?

trying to install democracy, reinvigorate an economy and instill western political ideology into Middle-East Iraq seems comparably, and in absolute terms, a mammoth task in regard to 20th century European Germany.

such as?
which links?

where did you get those figures from out of interest?

The US were by far the biggest power

The US were by far the biggest power

The aforementioned mutual hate between Hussein and bin Laden, the fact that all 'evidence' for dialogue between the two took place about a 2 decades (?) prior to 9/11



I recall them being often bandied around on here, and also reading them in the papers.



Actually we were(at the start of the war at least) the US/USSR were by the end.

Might I ask how many people here think that members of government should be allowed to sit on the board of companies?

The aforementioned mutual hate between Hussein and bin Laden, the fact that all 'evidence' for dialogue between the two took place about a 2 decades (?) prior to 9/11

you sure? what about the whole policy of disarmement etc... anyway we're drifting slightly away from the point here. Might I ask how many people here think that members of government should be allowed to sit on the board of companies?

I don't think so, I think it can cause a conflict of interest. One of the reasons that I disliked steven norris is because of his association with Jarvis. I don't think that you can do both and still be fair.

there were links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda throughout the 90s.
the aforementioned mutual hate that is as meritable as the claim that they both had a hatred for the west.

the point is, to dismiss any claim or evidence of collusion based on the idea that they may have hated each other on religious grounds is naive.

didnt he agree to resign from Jarvis were he to be elected?

Yeah but there would still be biases.

You have a point, i simply think that the assumption they were in cahoot is no more valid than the belief they werent - it simply comes down to personal interpretation i think.

how? you cant wipe someones past out. im sure Red Ken has a history that one could draw the same conclusions from. he agreed to end the conflict of interest if elected, otherwise he still has to make a living.