[TheForge] Rumsfeld way OT

[Andrew Vida]

Justin Fellenz wrote:
> It occurred to me that this is happening--possibly--because they
> deliberately underbid the war for the first 80 bil bank draw to get the
> war going, knowing that once it was underway people couldnt say no to
> more cash. 

	This is an age old trick.  It is used in IT all the time.  Bid $1m for 
a $20M job.  By the time you're that deep into it, the client almost 
always refuses to do what is right in preference to CYA tactics.  Main 
problem there, and in the case of this war, is that people making bids 
are not swung by their nuts when they fail to deliver.  Were that the 
case, much of this hanky panky would vanish most mysteriously.