# Money for the Neocons rolling in. **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 17, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-for-the-neocons-rolling-in/169432 "2003-04-17T23:38:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-for-the-neocons-rolling-in/169432/1 "2003-04-17T23:38:55Z")
[Bechtel wins rebuilding contract.](http://money.cnn.com/2003/04/17/news/companies/bechtel/index.htm) George Schultz, who heads the advisory board for the Committee to Liberate Iraq sits on the Bechtel board. Of couse it was awarded and not placed up for bids. Surprise surprise. Who raids the US teasury next? ---
**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-for-the-neocons-rolling-in/169432/2 "2003-04-17T23:50:46Z")
Bechtel has a long history of doing engineering work in Arab countries. Read this entire article to find out about the Bechtel family and the company. [http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/bechtel3.html](http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/bechtel3.html) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-for-the-neocons-rolling-in/169432/3 "2003-04-18T16:30:01Z")
Why will no one inclined to defend the Bechtel and Halliburton contracts discuss their being awared noncompetitively? That is the issue, not their basic competence, and ignoring it fools nobody. ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-for-the-neocons-rolling-in/169432/4 "2003-04-18T17:10:06Z")
First Optimus Prime and now neocons, what is this war coming to… ---
**Author:** ![ElJeffe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@ElJeffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElJeffe)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-for-the-neocons-rolling-in/169432/5 "2003-04-18T17:16:28Z")
Elvis: With Halliburton, at least, the contract was awarded long ago, for services unspecified. Now there’s some work for them to do, so the contract is becoming active. As much as you may want to find sinister overtones in everything the Bush administration does, there’s nothing to this Halliburton contract, outside of a potentially bad PR move. Then again, with the existing contract being what it is, it may be that the _have_ to give the contract to Halliburton - I couldn’t say. Jeff ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-for-the-neocons-rolling-in/169432/6 "2003-04-18T20:05:05Z")
Jeff, I asked about _noncompetition_. I don’t know how to make that plainer. Add yourself to the list of Bush supporters who won’t address the subject. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-for-the-neocons-rolling-in/169432/7 "2003-04-18T20:37:18Z")
Ummm… since when is George Schulz a neo-con? Did he publish some articles in “Commentary” that I never read? George Schulz is an old-school, Gerald Ford/Rockefeller Republican, not a neo-con by any strecth of the imagination.