Mr. Grey - you will find that AHOLEcrowley only posts links and cust and pastes off the net. He gives no opinions or insight of what he feels or offers any solutions.

He is a Wanker!!

Regarding your origal post. I can not argue with it to much. They only way the consumer is to fight back in this situation, as it is a goverment contract, is with a vote for or against a politician or party who gives the contact to a certain contractor. The goverenment expects these contractors to be able to handle these huge somes of money / contracts in an efficient manner. I think it would be better off to hand more, smaller contracts to more contractors. They are not then hit with a huge some that they spend irresponsibly jsut to use up the money allocated. While this is not as easy and may be more expensive and less efficient, in the long run it woudl provide a better quality product for the consumer / tax payer. To effect the change we can only use our vote against politicians / lobiests that represnt companies like halliburton.

There is no easy way to do this / exept not get into a war such as this in the first place. But until we put ourselves in a position where we do not need foregien oil, we are going to have to defend ourselves / the resources we need. That is the underlying problem.