Pentagon Delays Iraq Bidders' Conference

[underpants]

Pentagon Delays Iraq Bidders' Conference
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=2&u=/ap/20031211/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_reconstruction

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A conference for companies seeking $18.6 billion in reconstruction contracts in Iraq (news - web sites) has been delayed by eight days until Dec. 19, according to U.S. officials.

The delay comes amid a furor over a Pentagon (news - web sites) memo barring countries that didn't support the U.S.-led war from bidding on the reconstruction contracts.

The conference, in which the contract requests were to have been made public, was delayed by scheduling conflicts of the top U.S. official in Iraq who is overseeing the issue, retired Adm. David J. Nash, a spokesman said Thursday.

Krohn declined to comment on whether the delay was linked to the dispute over the Pentagon directive. The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which oversees Iraq, confirmed the delay in a message on its Web site.

The main contracts will be awarded Feb. 2 through the contracting office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Krohn said.

[Gman]

1. Typical

Wait until the heat dies down then do what they damn well please.

BTW, whatever happened to the outing of that CIA agent? I guess the heat's died down so they're doing what they damn well please, again.

[underpants]

2. Gee I don't know I guess the press has more important things to do

like not covering Candidates.

I don't know if you heard about this one but about 27 months ago the worst day of terrorism this once proud nation has ever seen occured and so far the preventive and reactive measures that should have been in place are still underfunded and mismanaged AND the review of what lead up to that horrible day has been stonewalled.