They Will Give Us "The Scowl"

I love this stuff. The Bureauweenies of the EU just don't get it. And they manage to prove it unequivocally day after day after day. Today's episode of idiocy involves the EU deciding that it will examine all the contracts issued by the US for the rebuilding of Iraq. The EU wants to make sure that all of our contracts meet the requirements of the WTO to ensure that "contracts awarded by national governments or their agencies must be open to businesses from abroad."

However, a spokeswoman for Pascal Lamy, the EU trade commissioner, conceded that this rule did not apply to vast bulk of contracts signed by the US Agency for International Development, the State Department organisation that oversees US humanitarian aid projects, and which so far has been largely responsible for reconstruction contracts in Iraq. Contracts that touch upon issues related to "national security" or "national defence" are also not covered by the agreement.

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"We will be examining [the contracts] on a case-by-case basis. We have to examine whether each of them falls under the exceptions the WTO rules provide for," the spokeswoman said.

These guys are seriously bitter about the outcome of the war. They so badly want to portray us in a bad light that they are going to take the time to examine each and every contract to make sure that they didn't miss out on an opportunity to make a buck. All this and they're concerned about "a row at the WTO."

We need to pass a resolution in Congress requiring that the contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq be awarded to the companies that provide the best value for the money. That would effectively eliminate most every weasel-based company and we'd still have the cover needed if they take us to the WTO ("We let them bid, they just didn't provide the value for the American taxpayer dollar.").

Then, the worst that would be able to do to us is to mightily scowl at us the infamous and always dangerous "European Scowl of Great Disapproval." It would be difficult to survive such a scowl attack, but we shall persevere as the Americans always do.