BUSH-whacking Irish Contractors

Has he put Ireland on the List?

The WTO will cut him down to size like they did with the steel tariffs.

He is grandstanding into an election year

CRH are probably the only ones who could scale up to the bigger contracts and benefit from such a deal, and they could probably get in via their US holding.

They are the No.1 national producer of asphalt in the US. Begads.

Kentz

You would be surprised, some of QS project managers here are pretty hot

I saw a picture of an irrigation project done in Saudi by an Irish firm in the early 1980’s

But this for Bush is pure soundbite, he is not going to alienate 40m Irish-Americans

Originally posted by Diaspora
Kentz

True, office in Houston too.

Don’t forget their office in Trinidad

dont think bush has constituents there

I read stuff about Bush excluding Russia, France and Germany in the FT last week.

It mentioned three countries alone.

He is right to ban these three countires for the following reasons

Russian Companies were running his oil industry and illegally exporting oil via Syria in contravention of UN sanctions

The German government under Kohl grant aided the chemical weapons factory which produced the gas that killed the Kurds

The french under Chirac (Mayor of paris) sold Sadam the makings of a nuclear weapons plant in the mid 1970’s

All of this was on a TG4 report recently.

I do not accept that he had any WMD in 2003 I think they were got after the gulf war.

But for the murder of the kurds he had to go

ah, a big can of worms. best left to a more political forum i reckon.

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Of equal relevance there is no such thing as an Irish Company with the capacity to tender for Iraq work not having the subsidiaries in the UK and US

The list is supposedly there to pacify the British who dedicated so much to the war effort and then got COMPLETELY excluded from the 1st round of contracts (i.e. they all went to D Cheny and his buddies in Haliburton etc). So in other words – the Brits want a complication free round of “tenders”. i.e. no other meddling EU members.
Laughably the most was Berite’s reaction to the news that Ireland was on the list… “of course we were – sure wasn’t I against the war all along?”