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April 17, 2004
Final thought: Gambling on CPA
Have to make another call, likely fruitless, to try to get the promised steel information out of the CPA fuckers, tomorrow.
Now you would think these incompetent [I thought of several obscenities then decided here I should just say CPAers] would be ready to bend over and grease themselves for the opportunity for actual real live serious investment to come in. However, they do not seem to want to do anything to actually enable actual investment. Good fucking lord, they are stupid. I mean, I am now led to understand we will not be able to get any shipping north of the port of Basra because private carriers just consider the routes too dangerous. That is to say, a good 50 percent of the habitable areas of Iraq are now utterly no go for any sane commercial venture. Given that the CPA is always rambling on about "turning corners" and the opposition is emerging because they're doing so well (a truly surreal claim that if they believe it, and I am afraid it may be the idiots who say these things actually do), one should think that these developments are... good news. Up is down. That sort of thing. You know, always been at war with East Asia...
Oh yeah, I have been led to understand by well-placed sources that "for around US $5 thousand [paid to] an Iraqi bureacrat working for CPA you can get yourself spec'ed into just about anything." This is getting real tempting - if not for that fucking corrupt practices act and my own odd obsession with doing things right even at the cost of double the effort and irritation - because clearly the honest request for basic information (that only they fucking hold) is not working.
In any case, anyone wanna lay bets that tomorrow's call is utterly useless?
No, that's not fair odds.
Rather, let's take suggestions on what kind of lame ass excuses or justifications I get, along with empty political blather.
Open to you, the reader.
Posted by The Lounsbury at April 17, 2004 10:17 PM
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