Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Ma che sorpresa...

Libero mercato... democrazia... i soldi non c'entrano proprio nulla. 
:-/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3305501.stm
Iraq tenders 'only for US allies' 
Companies from countries opposed to the conflict in Iraq will be
barred from bidding for new rebuilding contracts worth $18.6bn, the
Pentagon has said.
US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said the policy was
necessary to protect America's "essential security interests".
The 26 prime contracts cover areas such as oil, power, communications,
water, housing and public works centres.
The ban would exclude firms from countries such as France and Germany.
Limiting competition for prime contracts will encourage the expansion
of international co-operation in Iraq
Paul Wolfowitz 
The Bush administration hinted - even before the conflict - that
countries opposed to the war would pay a price when it came to a share
in post-war reconstruction, says the BBC's Pentagon correspondent Nick
Childs.
Now, the Pentagon has published formal guidelines from Mr Wolfowitz
confirming that companies from those countries cannot bid for new
reconstruction contracts.
"It is necessary for the protection of the essential security
interests of the United States to limit competition for prime
contracts of these procurements to companies from the US, Iraq,
coalition partners and force contributing nations," he said.
Other companies may bid for sub-contracts. 
'Tit-for-tat response' 
Mr Wolfowitz said he hoped that excluded firms would pressure their
governments to join the post-war effort.
"Limiting competition for prime contracts will encourage the expansion
of international co-operation in Iraq and future efforts," he wrote in
a notice on the website 
www.rebuilding-iraq.net
.
GUIDE TO IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION 
The move is likely to anger France and Germany and other traditional
allies in Nato and the UN Security Council.
Procurement specialist Professor Steven Schooner, of George Washington
University, said it was "disingenuous" to use national security as an
excuse.
"This kind of decision just begs for retaliation and a tit-for-tat
response," Reuters news agency quoted him as saying.
But a defence official also quoted by Reuters said Nato partners who
opposed the US-led conflict in Iraq had known for some time they would
not get prime contracts.
"This is not a slight," he said. "We still have many agreements with
those countries and good working relationships with them."
The announcement will appease countries such as Britain, Italy and
Spain, which provided troops to Iraq but whose companies were excluded
from the first round of deals that went to US firms.
The biggest contractor in Iraq is Bechtel, the American construction
firm that has an estimated $1bn contract to rebuild Iraq's
infrastructure
The other major US contractor is Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR), a
subsidiary of the oilfield services company Halliburton.

 :-/
Il solito disinformatore di Torrieri :)
Dimentica che quei soldi sono degli USA e che ha tutto il diritto di
decidere chi bannare da tali contratti :)
-Stefano


Rischi che si corrono quando il vecchio socio cade in disgrazia.

 Rischi che si corrono quando il vecchio socio cade in disgrazia.
Per "vecchio socio in disgrazia" intendi Cheney, no?
( 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A35751-2001Jun22&notFound=true
 )
Ma la legalita' della situazione non dice proprio nulla?
GT

Ma la legalita' della situazione non dice proprio nulla?
Cosa dovrebbe dire?  Illuminaci! :)
-Stefano

 Ma la legalita' della situazione non dice proprio nulla?
Quando ristrutturero' casa con i miei soldi devo invitare per forza ditte
francesi e tedesche?