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...justification for the memo, such as it is, warrants setting out in full. "It is necessary for the protection of the essential security interests of the United States," writes Wolfowitz, "to limit competition for the prime contracts of those procurements to companies from the United States, Iraq, coalition partners and force-contributing nations. Therefore, it is clearly in the public interest to limit prime contracts to companies from these countries." As a logical proposition, that paragraph can be reduced to the following: Because A, therefore A--the sort of tautology that would get any high school student a failing grade...
...over that Turkey, which would not let U.S. troops transit to Iraq, is on the approved list, while Canada, which has sent cash to Iraq, and Germany, which has offered to train a new Iraqi police force, are not.) That, it appears, is the "essential security interest" that justifies limiting competition for these contracts. So you might suppose that it is similarly in the national interest to limit those that could win subcontracts...
...House of Representatives and two in the U.S. Senate. He made an ill-fated run for the presidency in 1988, dropping out after winning only his home state's primary. As Senator, he revamped the federal student-loan program, fought for a balanced-budget amendment and worked to limit violence on television, maintaining all along that government "is not the enemy...
...Going into the game against Duluth we knew that they had one of the better offenses that we’ve faced,” Boe said, “and that we would really need to work hard in the defensive zone and try to limit them to one shot...
Princeton’s “hound-dog defense,” as Mazzoleni had earlier coined it, was a source of trouble for the Crimson, as the Tigers packed skaters back and managed to limit both Harvard’s puck movement and number of quality shots on goal...