Comments | flakaseagulls: reconstruction is over?

flakaseagulls

reconstruction is over?

Nov 03, 2006 10:05

This article is worth the read. $75 million for a police academy that leaks sewage on the heads of the recruits? "Baghdad received less than six hours a day of electricity last month, and much of Iraq’s population lives with untreated sewage and without clean water. But Bechtel, having received $2.3 billion of taxpayers’ money and having lost the ( Read more... )

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nimoz November 3 2006, 14:33:15 UTC

is this the same bechtel that designed and engineered the big dig tunnels?

merlin_v12 November 3 2006, 22:09:16 UTC

Yep. The very same Bechtel that built us a nice fourteen billion dollar car wash!

jror_tholin November 4 2006, 00:01:32 UTC

The article if you can't get behind the NYT pay wall:

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/11/paul_krugman_as.html

I also recommend this one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03reconstruct.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Because we can't have any accountability, that might make the Republicans look bad.

flakaseagulls November 4 2006, 02:42:28 UTC

Right. Depressing as hell. They figure the inspector general is actually, well, putting people in jail for STEALING from US TAXPAYERS. And the REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP wants to STOP the justice?!?!? What the hell!??! It's infuriating and these thieves ought to go to pound-you-in-the-ass prison.

jror_tholin November 4 2006, 04:18:49 UTC

Hopefully, come Tuesday, they're on their way. I hope the Dems gets some investigative power, and all they need is one side to get it. Don't try to go after the President, just try to accurately audit things. Get a clear picture of what happened with the intel. And don't trumpet it too much, just keep going with it.