This "Buy American Act" was brought
into being in May 2002.
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halliburton |
"The agency almost always awards American
companies a large portion of its contracts, but international
criticism erupted after recent news reports that the USAID had
limited the selection process for the biggest contracts to a
handful of huge U.S. multinational firms, some of which are
well connected to the Bush administration. Those firms include
a subsidiary of Halliburton Co.,
the company once headed by Vice President Cheney."
Washington
Post March 21, 2003 |
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industry |
"There's been a worrisome
trend we've been seeing, based on what we saw in Afghanistan,
where the Bush administration seems to be turning to a small
pool of mainly large U.S. contractors for most reconstruction
activities." Washington
Post March 21, 2003 |
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dick cheney |
" The Bush administration has never shied
away from flaunting its business credentials. But the news that
Halliburton, which used to be
run by Dick Cheney, is in line for
a slice of a $900m (£560m) contract from the American
government, now co-run by Dick Cheney,
to start rebuilding Iraq raises questions that need to
be answered... That Mr Cheney left
the top job at a multinational for a lessor role in a larger
enterprise, America, is not the problem. The issue is whether
the sensitive policy of war and peace has been bent to suit
the interests of US business, especially those with close ties
to the Bush administration. Randeep
Ramesh, Guardian March 13, 2003 |
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dick cheney |
More a nationalist than an imperialist, [Cheney]
cannot be accused of dragging America into Iraq this time for
oil. There is plenty of evidence to suggest weapons of mass
destruction are his primary concern. However, Mr
Cheney's America First policy may well ensure US companies
will exploit Iraqi oil for the "benefit"
of its liberated people. Randeep
Ramesh, Guardian March 13, 2003 |
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UN or US rebuild? |
After the blood and treasure expended, why would
we hand the fruits of victory to a man who tried his best to
delegitimize this war before it began and now tries to cast
moral taint on our conduct of it? Charles
Krauthammer, Washington Post, March 28, 2003. |
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IRG |
One of the contracts has been let by USAID to
the International Resources Group. Vice President Doug
Clark, "currently serves as program coordinator for
the $100-million USAID Environmental Policy IQC (EPIQ). His
more than 30 years of experience in international economic development
include 27 years with USAID." "IRG focuses on providing
practical solutions to complex, mission-critical problems for
public and private sector clients worldwide." IRG |
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Australia |
Some to be more equal than others "...we believe
that inevitably there must be an interim period of American
supervised administration [post war]. We then see a greater
role for the United Nations. But it has to be a role in our
view that accepts the propriety of what is being done by the
United States and Great Britain and Australia and others, it’s
got to be borne in mind that the countries that have made the
commitment and bought about the disarmament of Iraq and most
particularly but not only the United States has a right to express
a strong view about the post-conflict arrangements." PM
John Howard on Larry King Live, March 28, 2003 |
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Iraqi Oil |
" I believe the U.S. should form a consortium
of nations currently under contract to develop Iraq’s oil
fields, prominently including Italy, France, Russia, and China."
Michael
Novak, American Enterprise Institute, February 10, 2003 |
rebuilding
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