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This is a direct result of our government getting us into a situation our military was not prepared for.
How so?
This is called government being too cozy with corporations. I am reminded of Haliburton.
Possibly because KBR IS Halliburton. It gets worse. KBR actually received a bonus for the electrical work that killed over a dozen soldiers. At least the Iraqis don't charge us to kill our servicemen.
I think it's more appropriately a result of Bush admin giving no bid contracts to it's pals and in thanks, KBR took the money and did ****ty work. Anyone who knows building contractors knows that ****ty work means more profit. So KBR wasn't satisfied to take the unbid contract at a very high profit margin, they decided to make even more by doing substandard work. Aren't corporations just dandy!This is a direct result of our government getting us into a situation our military was not prepared for.
Haliburton and KBR are the corporations the left decided to demonize as part of their overall lets **** over Iraq plot.
It was chosen because years ago Cheney worked for them.
Past that they wouldn't give a rats ass if it ground up babies.
Doesn't matter guilt or innocence..it matters how they can portray negatively. Its basically a conspiracy theory.
Childish.
This is your hyper partisan and completely baseless accusation. KBR was chosen because KBR has abused their contracts in Iraq. There has already been testimony provided that has detailed the abuse.Haliburton and KBR are the corporations the left decided to demonize as part of their overall lets **** over Iraq plot.
It was chosen because years ago Cheney worked for them.
WASHINGTON - A massive contract to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan received a withering review Monday, as a special panel investigating waste and fraud in wartime spending was told of numerous deficiencies in the arrangement that has paid KBR Inc. nearly $32 billion since 2001.
Testifying before the bipartisan Wartime Contracting Commission, April Stephenson, head of the Defense Contract Audit Agency, said her agency has referred at least 16 reports since 2004 of suspected fraud or improper conduct stemming from the contract to government investigators.
Stephenson called the number of referrals "unprecedented" for a single military contract or program. But she declined to give details on those reports or name the sources of the alleged improprieties.
The agency has conducted dozens of audits on the KBR contract and has challenged about $4.7 billion in costs charged by the company, she said.
KBR is the primary contractor for the so-called LOGCAP III contract, but the Houston-based company has hired an extensive network of subcontractors to help it provide U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait with dining facilities, transportation, sanitation systems, warehouses and other critical services.
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Jeffrey Parsons, head of the Army Contracting Command, and Lee Thompson from the Army Materiel Command, were on the defensive throughout most of the hearing, which lasted more than three hours. They said the demands for KBR's services as the war in Iraq escalated stressed the contract and the accounting systems to manage it beyond planned capacities.
Seriously, what value do comments like this add? They are completely juvenile and not even remotely true. Are you capable of actually commenting on this story with an objective and reasonable thought?Past that they wouldn't give a rats ass if it ground up babies.
Yes, click your heels three times and say that and possibly it will go away.Doesn't matter guilt or innocence..it matters how they can portray negatively. Its basically a conspiracy theory.
I couldn't agree more.Childish.
I think it's more appropriately a result of Bush admin giving no bid contracts to it's pals and in thanks, KBR took the money and did ****ty work. Anyone who knows building contractors knows that ****ty work means more profit. So KBR wasn't satisfied to take the unbid contract at a very high profit margin, they decided to make even more by doing substandard work. Aren't corporations just dandy!
To get past the partisan aspect of this, which saddens me...
Can we all agree that any business that endangers or kills our troops for profit should, upon conviction, have it's management and executive team hung on the Pentagon lawn?
Right, no one actually died of electrocution due to shoddy work by KBR. It was the medical team that is at fault, after all, they couldn't save their lives, right?
Seriously Triad... do you think that non-liberals ever do anything wrong or is it all just a media conspiracy?
Responsibility for this mess starts with the Bush administration (for such poor, poor planning) and rolls down to KBR. I believe the folks in the middle were probably doing the best they could in such a horrible situation. You have the White House engaging our nation in a pointless and inefficient expansionist gambit and you have KBR with a series of very fat no-bid cost plus contracts that have essentially no effective oversight whatsoever.
Who knows what happenned.
I know enough not to trust any of you on the facts. I also know many of you will make accusations of guilt without any facts at all.
Credibility is zero.
It sure is a shame the US military was not prepared for Iraq like it was for Japan and Germany. :roll:
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Hogwash. Irrelevant red herring as you have no proof of anyone lying here. Moving on.There is a very old story attributed to a greek slave named Aesop from the 6-7th Centuty BC its called-
'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'
"A shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains.
The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: "Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep"; but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance. The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock.
There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth."
Its lesson is more then applicable.
Oh never mind, yet more pointless hyper partisan commentary. Nothing actually relevant to the topic of the thread.Also note the KBR/Haliburton demonizers bashing Bush /Cheney etc.
Its a conspiracy theory..whatever legal trouble KBR may have is of no concern to them.
That ok because after this reply you're on ignore.
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