Russia warns US of "negative consequences" of bar on Iraq contracts

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MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia has warned the United States of the "negative political consequences" that would follow if it carries out its decision to bar non-coalition countries from bidding for contracts in the reconstruction of Iraq (news - web sites). snip


"But this has not led to anything good, as Iraq is still unstable, and nor will it do so," he said. snip


Fedotov also called into question the decision's legitimacy, and queried "whether it complies with the rules of the World Trade Organisation regarding fair competition."


He said the decision was "principally a political signal: We can do without you and do it all on our own. Well, we have seen where that has led them."

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[ixion]

1. "we have seen where that has led them"

Yes, that's right. The entire world has seen where this illegal war of aggression has led us. The only people who don't seem to see that are the people who get their information from US mainstream 'news' outlets.

Seems we sound like a broken record these days when saying:

The Bush cabal will only lead the US to ruin, if allowed to retain the office they stole during coup 2K.

[0007]

2. And then God said "Let there be Light"

The New America of Iraq
Will forbid any country that did not help support our triumph
of Saddam Hussein, a ruthless evil dictator
from any contractual agreement with the U.S.
And will be characterize as a high grade security risk.

Duck and cover!

[ClintonTyree]

3. Illegal?

"Then I'd better call my lawyer". Bush has succeeded in making the U.S. the most hated country on earth. What a wonderful job our pResident has done. If the American people elect this asshole to a first term, I hold out no hope that this country will ever recover from the damage he's done.
Will the puppy press wake up in time before the coronation of King George? If there's a God in heaven (?) it will, however I'm not counting on it. They give the murderer in chief a free pass more often than not, I see nothing in the future that would change their course.

[tabasco]

7. If Americans are ignorant enough to keep this corrupt regime...

we will all truly suffer for years to come. As an isolated pariah state, we will be much more a target of terorist attacks and more vulnerble because of our isolation. I can hardly believe their is a person of average intelligence who can't see that their country is being exploited by a cabal of corporate thugs.

[Union Thug]

4. Shortsighted Bushies

All this will come back to haunt us, as Russia's gangster capitalism pushes closer to a corporate/fascist state, and, whoops.. Bush and the Neo-con(men) decided that nuclear weapons treaties were unnecessary. Yikes.. staring down the barrel of a nuclear world again.... Boy,you've just gotta hand it to shrub. He took fifty years of progress and managed to trash 3/4 of it in 3 years.

Welcome to the new gilded age where corporate states point nukes at eachother in the name of profit.

[warrior1]

5. image

the world doing a collective sign. Who in their right mind would want to go to Iraq?

[PaDUer]

10. Then send * over there

so they can deal with him without his goons..He knows they'd lock him up in a nanosecond..Time to pay the piper!

[Sagan]

6. Idiots.

Negative consequences? I'll give you negative consequences. How about some nice modern shoulder-fired Grail SAM's shipped to Iraq through Syria? After all, now the Chimp's brilliant diplomacy has pissed off the Syrians too, don't you think that they figure they're next?

And given the fact that the Chimp's misAdministration seems to have about enough smarts to half-fill a thimble, what about China? Don't you think that they LOVE the fact we're sinking in the Iraqi quagmire? In fact, I imagine that a great deal of the world is starting to think that it's a great idea to keep us there.

Putin is one of the craftiest KGB agents to ever come down the pike. Chimpy failed in the OIL business. In TEXAS. And then screwed up a baseball team. Who comes out ahead, I wonder?

If people think that the rest of the world is just going to watch while the Chimp runs amok in the china shop, they've got another think coming.

[kalian]

8. And just wait until we piss off the Chinese....

:eyes:

[PROGRESSIVE1]

9. If only Americans get the contracts then only the Americans should...

fight in Iraq!

[cliss]

11. The person being quoted here is

Yury Federov. For a moment, I thought it was Putin.

Let's take a look at the statements: Russia is disgruntled because the US is barring them from bidding on reconstruction contracts. They will not be allowed to bid on, for example, building bridges or other infrastructure. This is being reserved for Canada, Spain, and Japan. (?)

A little further down, Mr. Fedotov says, (the decision to keep other countries out was) "principally a political signal. We can do without you and do it all on our own. Well, we have seen where that has led them".

The Russians feel that this is purely political. I would tend to agree with this.

The decision was splashed out in the media this week, very blatantly announced by Bush. It was a move that was designed to drive in the dagger. If it was real negotiating, it would have been kept behind the scenes, like most real negotiating is.

This was a showpiece. For what, I'm not sure. I can smell lots of hatred, and I'm tracing it back to Wolfowitz.

[bobthedrummer]

12. Whatever happened to the missing suitcase nukes that Lebed talked

about before his "helicopter accident"?
Those are WMD's and negative consequences if ever used again.

[joanski01]

13. If Putin doesn't do

anything else, he's going to get even with the chimpboy for dubbing him "Pootie Poo".