Okay, now I’m a little cranky. I went and bugged these guys again yesterday a.m. and bcc’d my buddy at the company. I got back from the Project Management guys that everything was on track, just moving slowly, and that my stuff was still with the USG. I get a note from my friend just a little while later that says that he heard a rumor regarding the company’s budget that didn’t look good for my trip. He calls later and tells me that his boss’s boss just said that it was “safe to say” that no one new would be going to Iraq due to budget issues.
I still haven’t got the final word, but if this whole thing is called off I’m going to be a little cranky. Stay tuned.