http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:36:47 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/22/143028.php#comment-24714 Given the other prices (over-)paid for items in Iraq, your bridge story could well be true, too. From the Washington Post: Senate Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) catalogued some of the items in Bush's Iraq request, including $3.6 million for 600 radios and phones, at $6,000 apiece; 80 pickup trucks at $33,000 apiece; $40 million for a $333-a-month computer training course that would cost $100 to $200 at a U.S. community college; and a $10,000-per-month business school that is twice the monthly cost of the Harvard Business School. http://makeashorterlink.com/?T47324E46 24714@blogcritics.org Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:36:47 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/22/143028.php#comment-24703 well, now i don't know what to believe. The story I heard before was that some iraqi company could rebuild a major bridge (or bridges) for about $80000 but some us company that said it'd cost millinos got the job instead. No matter, it still shows that those companies that did get contracts purely due to links with the honourable president bush (er, i mean because they are outstanding companies who'd jump at the chance to do anything humanitarian even if it meant no profit for themselves) were ripping off the us 24703@blogcritics.org Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:31:55 EDT