KBR serves shit water to our troops, sickness and disease follow. This would never have happened if someone hadn’t reduced their morale.
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chopper
we have to give our soldiers dysentery over there so we don’t have to fight it over here.
Zifnab
This never would have happened if the Democrats had conducted proper oversight. I blame Waxman and Pelosi.
Dennis - SGMM
If Bill Clinton hadn’t devastated KBR our troops would have clean water.
Punchy
When your so busy raping the female employees, it’s hard to keep those filtration tanks free of all the crazy semen flying everywhere.
Yeah, I said it.
caustics
We go to war with the shit water we’ve been given, not the bottomless well of Fiji Water we’d like to have.
Dennis - SGMM
The Pentagon just released a statement:
clone12
Mutually exclusive ledes of the week:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-03-09-sunday_N.htm
BAGHDAD, March 9 (AP) — The U.S. military said Sunday it does not believe a recent wave of deadly attacks in Baghdad reflects a trend toward an overall increase in violence.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gQl_i-xfN3zSB7jRSyL2hAxuhXUw
WASHINGTON, March 10 (AFP) — Al-Qaeda may be shifting tactics back to the big, headline grabbing attacks in Iraq that helped plunge the country into chaos, a senior US commander said Monday.
Svensker
Apparently Michelle “Our Lady of the Concentration Camps” Malkin thinks this is just AP propaganda against all that is good. TBogg has the story.
Anyone who thinks that big offshore tax-evading corporations that overbill the U.S. government and allow rape during lunch breaks aren’t the good guys? Well those people are troop-hating terrorist supporters.
Jake
Maybe The Troops (R) like skin diseases and the runs Tim. Didya ever think of that? Did ya?
cbear
Yeah, but look at the upside. Now one of the gooper-backed pharmaceutical companies can develop a new wonder drug to treat the troops and sell it to the Pentagon for $1000 a pop.
“When everyday life in a war zone gets you down and you’re feeling a little queasy and weak–why not ask your doctor if Shitlax is right for you?”
Evinfuilt
This seems interesting, technically KBR used the correct methods to treat this water (reverse-osmosis, then clorinate) but then they did the Republican move of never checking to make sure it was working.
After all, it costs money to check on stuff.
The problem here wasn’t the source of the water, the problem was no follow-through on the treatment to make sure it was actually being done properly.
Punchy
Can this be true?
Question–do they just stop recruiting after they hit their numbers? How else do they so perfectly nail the exact value they’re looking for in several cases? Doesn’t that look a bit odd, almost like the DoD just changes the “goal” to whatever the number is?
John, any military insight?
Jake
Next up, the Republican move of blaming Iraqi sub-sub-sub-contractors who were right here a moment ago but seem to have mysteriously disappeared.
JR
No, this must be Ralph Nader’s fault.
If Nader had not caused the Iraq War, which is the default “safe” position of Dkos, then KBR could never have poisoned our troops.
Damn you Nader.
Tim F.
No, KBR signed a contract to use the correct methods to treat the water. Had they actually done so the shit bacteria would have either died or been filtered out. It’s nothing more than one more case of contracting fraud hurting the war effort.
Jon H
Potable water is for closers.
Josh
An orgasm wasn’t involved in this story, so I can’t see why this is such a big deal.
Jon H
“An orgasm wasn’t involved in this story, so I can’t see why this is such a big deal.”
To be fair, we don’t know what went into the water.
Also, I expect KBR’s managers made the o-face when they found out how much profit they were making by giving liquid cholera to the troops instead of clean water.
Lupin
In Black Adder II, Captain Rum (Tom Baker) liked drinking his own urine.
wvng
and over at Think Progress, you can find out what else KBR has been up to. Here’s a hint:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/11/kbr-forces-its-towels-on-us-troops/
Bubblegum Tate
Goddammit. I was going to snark that this is all the media’s fault for reporting it, but ol’ Stalkin’ Malkin beat me to it–except she’s not kidding. Fuck you and your ahead-of-the-parody ways, Malkin.
Jake
The KBR rep also insisted that he had to hand the towels to the soldiers as they were leaving the showers…
I kid. It was nice of CornFlakesBR to give the soldiers a nice fluffy place to wipe their asses after another bout of KBR-sponsored squits.
Martin
The target was 2,947? Yeah, that’s bullshit. Not only are these guys not hitting their targets, they’re not even bright enough to figure out how to lie about what the target was without it being obvious that they’re lying. Well, the Army and Marines know how to game the stats, Air Force and Navy, not so much.
rawshark
Is Tinkerbell the fairy of clean water?
Tsulagi
Pretty much.
For FOB Q-West, the subject base in the NYT article, one clearly America-hating brigade surgeon found the buffet waters of the Tigris being treated just a little bit differently than what was called for …
And more. When the brigade surgeon and other officers told the KBR manager on site their practices and water weren’t meeting Army contract specs and regs…
See? No problem. That Army captain just wasn’t seeing the big picture.
HyperIon
hmmm..i read something just today about findings that Gulf War syndrome was actually caused by the drugs given to soldiers to protect against chemical weapons. i wish i had paid more attention to the article so i could provide a link. perhaps someone else saw it? i found it….amazing….like much of what i read these days about the government.
Tony J
In Black Adder II, Captain Rum(Tom Baker)likedlikes drinking his own urine, and when playing the role of Captain Rum in Black Adder II, insisted on having his character do the same, arguing “I’ll wager he’s a lot like me, and he likes the familiar taste of a man’s salt when he’s washing down his biscuits.”Fixed for verisimilitude.
maxbaer (not the original)
Corruption and cronyism during wartime led to this. Who could have foreseen such a thing?
rawshark
Typical republican answer. During the US Attorney scandal I had wingnuts instead of trying to defend Alberto they hit me with ‘well back when blah blah blah’. I actually got the ‘two wrongs make a right’ excuse.
Jake
Hyperlon.
HyperIon
thanks, jake.
i’m surprised that this is not getting more notice.
wasn’t the owner of this fabulous blog involved in that conflict? i wonder if he has any familiarity with the drugs/symptoms.