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mattclearing

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Thu Dec-22-05 05:00 PM
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2. Because the Government was too inefficient to do it themselves.

They let contractors fight over it and award to the lowest and/or most suitable vendor.

This was a big part of Al Gore's re-inventing Government plan...to get rid of the $60 hammer syndrome.

Too bad Cheney took his place and gave all the work to Halliburton subsidiaries.

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