You are correct there.. Although as the haliburton thing goes, from what I understand (most likely worng) they pick a contractor to do emergency work every year (in cases where the competitive bid process wouldn't work) and choose to go with them. Haliburton just got lucky and did what any GC with an open work ticket would do. To my understanding there are only 3 or 4 GC's in the world big enough to do this work.

Between greed and ethics, we can't trust the job to a for profit industry. Just the lawsuits from families of dead or wounded soldiers would put the price out of reach for us.

Yeah.

It was luck.

And the moon is made of cheese.

Just a thought... the military used to be self contained for all operations (food, logistics, etc.) but now relies on outsourcing. What if those supply corporations went bankrupt?

We would yank some ships out of moth balls, dust em off in Bremerton, fuel em up, stick some shore duty sailors aboard and get it taken care of.

Oh wait, that was then and this is now... Well, we'd call the Air Force with those big cargo jets, put in our geedunk order and get it delivered by tomorrow.

I'm thinkin' UPS (no, not United Pot Smokers) - talk about for profit efficiency!

What can Brown do for you?

OMG.....another thread hijacked by those pesky boneless brown trout!!!

I doubt that Health care can ever be conquered at the state level but if any state could do it CA stands a chance based on population. WA tried mandating coverage for all but the ins comps just left our state.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB0Vn_BppwM

You can thank Clinton for cutting Military spending .. That being said though, the rebuilding process is usually done by an outside contractor from my limited knowledge.

Shouldn't a blaming Clinton post be over on the worn out sayings thread?

Oh no, I was referring to actual ongoing military operations, not rebuilding. And while all fascists may be considered bigots, not all bigots are fascists

+1

Ehh, shouldn't saying bush is an Idiot be over there too? People seem to quickly forget how many US troops were over seas under UN control during Clintons time. And all of the military spending that went to those escapades. So in reality Spending under clinton went down slightly, but there were still several costly little "peace keeping" missions going on funded directly by US tax payers.

One of my closes friends was in Bosnia for 2 years under Clinton getting shot at. Not saying its as bad as the current fisco, but its not too great.

Nope.

Check back in eight years.

"UN control"

Too bad Bush didn't bother to get the world behind him huh?

Too bad the voices of the critics were silenced by "you must not be a patriot if you don't want to stop Sadaam from coming over here". Does anyone really believe that Iraq had anything to do with 9-11? The highjackers were Saudis'.