bechtel completes 10 of 24 contract projects; parsons, 6 of 141 healthclinics: fecal matter!

"Congress has asked the inspector general’s office to look at all of the major contractors that worked in Iraq and assess their work. A previous assessment found that another major American construction company, Bechtel National, had successfully completed 10 of 24 job orders for rebuilding water, sewage and electricity plants in a huge contract

But earlier, more limited examinations of Parsons’s work in Iraq had already suggested serious shortcomings. Mr. Bowen’s office had previously found, for example, that Parsons had completed just 6 of 141 primary health care clinics called for in one of the contracts and that urine and fecal matter leaking from poor plumbing had made major portions of the Baghdad police academy unusable"

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/world/middleeast/29reconstruction.html?ref=world




when you hear anyone talking about some "surge" or our benefits to this nation, consider the above. the country is destroyed, in mayhem, will be bloody and contested for decades.