Another $700 mil pissed down a hole in Iraq because nobody thought to write oversight into the contract. We’re all Bill Murray now.
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by Tim F| 18 Comments
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by Tim F| 18 Comments
This post is in: War, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.
Another $700 mil pissed down a hole in Iraq because nobody thought to write oversight into the contract. We’re all Bill Murray now.
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Incertus
I hope this doesn’t mean that Cheney gets to sleep with Andie McDowell.
TenguPhule
Hah, that’s peanuts these days.
$20 Billion pissed onto the fire of burning money that is BOA.
Plus another $118 billion in the works.
So yeah, $138 Billion for Bank of America, which is still constipated from Lynch and Country.
Suck on that America.
Svensker
Well, thank God it didn’t go to workers in America who belong to unions. THAT would piss me off.
BDeevDad
But, but, earmarks are the source of all budget problems. McCain and Glenn Reynolds told me so.
Just Some Fuckhead
I swear it seems like Balloon-Juice has used this post title before.
The Moar You Know
From the linked article:
Never let it be said that I oppose Republicans just because they’re Republicans. Senator Collins has a damn good idea here and it’s long past time for such a law to be passed.
Zifnab
Again?
Brick Oven Bill
Way Out There Conspiracy Theory based upon Paul Chefurka’s excellent website.
There was little oversight because those pipes in southern Iraq were not only being installed to facilities that would have no output, which of course they won’t because we’ll let the Iraqis run them, guaranteeing that they will fall apart, providing cover for our sneaky plan.
Some of those pipes in southern Iraq were extended to Saudi Arabia. The reason for this is because Saudi production peaked in the middle of 2005 (graph in link), and if this were to become widely known, then the API assumptions, which are total crap, would be revealed as total crap. So it is necessary to make it appear that the Saudis can continue to pump more oil.
In the middle of 2005, Saudi oil output peaked at 9.5 MBD, then fell off in peak-like manner for no reason that I can tell to 8.6 MBD at the beginning of 2007. Saudi oil output in 2008 reached 9.7 MBD.
Bill Arnold
That is a seriously broken metaphor.
bayville
Evidently WaPo editors thought the story was very notable. They ranked it "Page A14" worthy.
Comrade Dread
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said yesterday, "The report cites a familiar and troubling litany of poor planning, insufficient security and the failure of the
Iraqi government to protect and maintain facilities."Bush administration to be able to find their ass with two hands, a map, a compass and a bloody flashlight."Fixed.
I need to lose my conscious, become an epic douchebag and start my own government contracting company.
Ash Can
There. All fixed up.
Reverend Dennis
They were "only" awarded $6.5 million? I will comprehensively fuck up any project you’d care to put me on for half that much.
Conservatively Liberal
Fix’t moar. ;)
aarrgghh
is that like when steve martin winks at the camera and says "oops! i … forgot!"
grandpajohn
shit, with this bunch of criminals why would anyone think that it was accidental that there was no oversight
Rudi
All the financial malfeasance is meaningless, the Iraqis are pro-life, love W and support creationism. Mr. Kate o’Beirn is doing a heck of a job…
jonas
Ah, the incredible lightness of being KBR. You get a $50 million dollar contract to build a water purification plant. You spend $500 hiring some Iraqi truck drivers to offload a bunch of rusty drainage pipes in a big pile on the lot where the plant should be built. When the government asks how that purification plant is coming along, you explain that there have been some complications, you know, subcontractor delays and whatnot, but that due to the way the contract is written, you are actually owed $100 million if the project is not completed.
Wash, rinse, repeat.