Kieran Healy

Food for Cynics

A subsidiary of Halliburton has won one of the first contracts to be awarded by the Government for rebuilding work in Iraq.

Update: For dessert, cynics may note that it was a no-bid contract.

Update 2: Actually, these appear to be two different contracts, both to Halliburton subsidiaries, one bid and one no-bid.

Cynics may not be able to digest this yet, given the feast they are currently being fed.

The Charge of the Bush Brigade—
“Cynics to the right of them
Cynics to the left of them
Cynics around them
Volleyed and thundered.”
—- and with the same results let us hope.

Kieran, this means that the average contract was indeed, a 0.5-bid contract. A 0.5-bid contract is not a ‘no-bid’ contract.

When will you stop contaminating the blogosphere with your objectively pro-Saddam lies?

Sincerely,

Barry
The fact-checking anti-idiotarian non-politically-correct warblogger.