(OT) Of course all we're doing is painting schools...
Lord Gow333, Conservative Renegade!!!
South Baghdad neighborhoods get water, sewer upgrade
Friday, 09 February 2007
By Norris Jones
Gulf Region Central District
BAGHDAD - Crews are busy installing new water mains in three small
neighborhoods in south Baghdad and another contractor is just about finished
repairing a major sewer collapse there.
"The Iraqis like seeing people working in their community," said Maj. Robert
Nash with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "That particular area in Doura
has been neglected for DECADES [emphasis mine] and residents appreciate our
efforts."
Nash is optimistic about the neighborhood's future despite ongoing insurgent
clashes. "People are starting to get a grasp of what's really going on and
what we're trying to do," Nash said. "There are more shops open, more people
walking around, more kids playing in the street than I've seen in a long
time. We're working shoulder to shoulder with Baghdad's government to make
this happen."
[full story at link]
LG (bettin' Nawlins is jealous)
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under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate." - Winston
Churchill
CrossfaceWalls
<lord...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=980...
>
> South Baghdad neighborhoods get water, sewer upgrade
> Friday, 09 February 2007
> By Norris Jones
> Gulf Region Central District
>
> BAGHDAD - Crews are busy installing new water mains in three small
> neighborhoods in south Baghdad and another contractor is just about finished
> repairing a major sewer collapse there.
> "The Iraqis like seeing people working in their community," said Maj. Robert
> Nash with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "That particular area in Doura
> has been neglected for DECADES [emphasis mine] and residents appreciate our
> efforts."
> Nash is optimistic about the neighborhood's future despite ongoing insurgent
> clashes. "People are starting to get a grasp of what's really going on and
> what we're trying to do," Nash said. "There are more shops open, more people
> walking around, more kids playing in the street than I've seen in a long
> time. We're working shoulder to shoulder with Baghdad's government to make
> this happen."
>
> [full story at link]
>
> LG (bettin' Nawlins is jealous)
Remember when the conservatives were the party that wasn't into
"nation building" and "charity starts at home"?
CrossfaceWalls = then again, "you break it, you own it", is what I
always say.
GreenPartyLampshade
news:12sphp4...@corp.supernews.com:
> http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9800&
> Itemid=128
>
> South Baghdad neighborhoods get water, sewer upgrade
> Friday, 09 February 2007
> By Norris Jones
> Gulf Region Central District
>
> BAGHDAD - Crews are busy installing new water mains in three small
> neighborhoods in south Baghdad and another contractor is just about
> finished repairing a major sewer collapse there.
> "The Iraqis like seeing people working in their community," said Maj.
> Robert Nash with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "That particular
> area in Doura has been neglected for DECADES [emphasis mine] and
> residents appreciate our efforts."
The Bush family has been destroying Iraq for DECADES.
The Citizen
Renegade!!!" <lor...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9800&Itemid=128
>
>South Baghdad neighborhoods get water, sewer upgrade
>Friday, 09 February 2007
>By Norris Jones
>Gulf Region Central District
>
>BAGHDAD - Crews are busy installing new water mains in three small
>neighborhoods in south Baghdad and another contractor is just about finished
>repairing a major sewer collapse there.
>"The Iraqis like seeing people working in their community," said Maj. Robert
>Nash with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "That particular area in Doura
>has been neglected for DECADES [emphasis mine] and residents appreciate our
>efforts."
>Nash is optimistic about the neighborhood's future despite ongoing insurgent
>clashes. "People are starting to get a grasp of what's really going on and
>what we're trying to do," Nash said. "There are more shops open, more people
>walking around, more kids playing in the street than I've seen in a long
>time. We're working shoulder to shoulder with Baghdad's government to make
>this happen."
So I take it this is where the all of the so-far-unaccounted-for $12
billion (or 363 tons of cash, if you want to visualize it) from the
Federal Reserve has gone?
Money well spent.
--
The Citizen
"All The Effort In The World Won't Matter If You're Not Inspired."
Jason Todd
<lord...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=980...
>
Well shucks! Everything's just fine and dandy now isn't it?
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16909438/
WASHINGTON - New revelations have emerged about how tens of millions
of taxpayer dollars have been wasted in Iraq. A new report by
government watchdogs singles out a big American contractor - Parsons -
for shoddy work. Investigators charge that Parsons managed to turn a
flagship project to help train Iraqi police into a hall of horrors
using taxpayer money.
The Baghdad Police Academy was supposed to be a showcase to train
Iraqi police - key to the U.S. strategy.
Instead, Wednesday's report says the American construction company
turned it into a disaster from the start: incomplete and substandard
designs, shoddy construction and no real quality control.
"This is the worst project that my inspectors have visited," says
Stuart Bowen, inspector general for Iraq.
Bowen says the Iraqis recently refused to take over the complex,
calling the work disgusting.
Here's what Parsons delivered for taxpayers' $62 million:
# Shoddily built brick walls.
# Cracking concrete.
# Exposed reinforced steel bars.
# Buildings without enough power or with faulty electrical box wiring.
# Plumbing so bad that when cadets used it, human waste rained through
light fixtures and ceilings.
The report places some blame on the Army Corps of Engineers, which was
supposed to oversee the project.
"They actually awarded Parsons merit increases despite widespread
evidence of deficient work," says Rep. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/31/iraq/main2415689.shtml
Audit Studies U.S. Dollars Spent In Iraq
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2007(CBS/AP) Congressional Democrats on Wednesday
decried tens of millions dollars of waste in Iraq reconstruction aid,
as a new government report underscored a need for closer scrutiny of
how the costly war is being handled.
Lawmakers in both the House and Senate said they planned hearings or
legislation to address what they say is a growing problem of abuse as
the Bush administration struggles to get a handle on both a spiraling
war and the contractors who help run it.
"Our troops are going without - even as government funds go to pay for
such boondoggles as an Olympic-size swimming pool in an unused
training camp," said a statement issued by the Senate Democratic
Communications Center directed by Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
"As the president is planning to send 21,500 more American service
members into Iraq and asking for $1.2 billion in new reconstruction
aid, Americans have every reason to question his spending priorities,"
it said.
The quarterly audit released Wednesday by Stuart Bowen Jr., the
special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, found the $300
billion U.S. war and reconstruction effort continues to be plagued
with waste, spiraling violence and corruption.
Oil production - the backbone of the Iraqi economy which was supposed
to pay the reconstructions bills - remains below prewar levels,
reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin. By the
inspector general's estimate, $16 billion in potential oil revenues
have been lost through a combination of violence, incompetence and
corruption.
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http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_5186709
Show me the money, or at least some receipts scribbled on the backs of
old envelopes and grocery bags.
This week, we were treated to the spectacle of the former U.S.
civilian overlord of Iraq, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, squirming in the
hot seat as he attempted with little success to explain what he did
with 363 tons of newly printed, shrink-wrapped $100 bills he had flown
to Baghdad.
That's $12 billion in cold, hard American cash, and no one,
especially Bremer, seems to know where it went.
It may be an urban legend, but the late Sen. Everett Dirksen, the
Illinois Republican, is widely quoted as saying: ''A billion here, a
billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.'' If he
didn't say it, he should have.
Bremer, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his
role in totally screwing up the first two years of the Iraq
Occupation, said that a lot of the cash was delivered to ministries of
the Iraqi government to meet payrolls that were patently fraudulent.
The Department of Defense's special inspector general for Iraq,
Stuart Bowen, said that a 2005 audit he conducted found that in some
ministries the payroll was padded with up to 90 percent ''ghost
employees'' - people who didn't really work there or perhaps didn't
really exist.
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BTW LG, I realize that the above C&P's came from the dastardly liberal
media (the first one is from those socialist hippies at GE-owned NBC,
and the last one is from those godless heathens at the Salt Lake
Tribune) but you'd do a lot better to more closely examine this stuff
nds rather than just parrot Little Green Footballs and Laura Ingraham
(stop being hypnotized by that come-hither, phone sex voice of hers!)
Frankly, I'm amazed you haven't jumped all over Nancy Pelosi. While
she's entitled to have a jet, (which even the White House agrees!) it
would have been far better for her --image-wise -- if she had the
foresight to just take commercial flights right off the bat like she
says she's going to do now. Hopefully she doesn't have a hissy fit and
shut down the government like Newt Gringich did when Clinton didn't
talk him him on an Air Force One flight to Israel back in 1995.
Face it LG, when you're trying to find validation for our
misadventures in Iraq, you're always going to come up short. You
should stick to debunking global warming and reminding us about how
Bill Clinton got bjs and lied about it, lest we forget.
Jason "What was that chicks' name again? Melinda? Malina? " Todd
Lord Gow333, Conservative Renegade!!!
"Jason Todd" <janklo...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hell of a lot better than we're hearing about... unless the soldiers are
lying their asses off. Nice of you to shit on the troops, BTW.
> ********************
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16909438/
>
> WASHINGTON - New revelations have emerged about how tens of millions
> of taxpayer dollars have been wasted in Iraq.
You could replace "Iraq" with the name of ANY social program since FDR and
that statement would be just as true, if not more so.
> Face it LG, when you're trying to find validation for our
> misadventures in Iraq, you're always going to come up short.
Only when dealing with "open minded" libtards who would rather see welfare
mamas get their daily crack than Iraqis get fresh water. Nice support of
human rights there, Bub. Iraq is justified simply on the basis of
humanitarian issues. The anti -terrorist aspect is a nice bonus tho.
>You
> should stick to debunking global warming
Yeah, but I need a challenge.
>and reminding us about how
> Bill Clinton got bjs and lied about it
under oath, and threatened witnesses, and tampered with evidence....
, lest we forget.
This from the assholes who can't remember Sept. 11th...
LG
--
If you wonder how it came to be generally acknowledged "fact," accepted by
all men of good will, that Joe McCarthy was a monster, that Alger Hiss was
innocent, that mankind is causing global warming and that we're losing the
war in Iraq, try watching the rewriting of history nightly on MSNBC. - Ann
Coulter
Lord Gow333, Conservative Renegade!!!
"The Citizen" <citi...@nospam.ca> wrote in message
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Better than Katrina gift cards.
Lord Gow333, Conservative Renegade!!!
"GreenPartyLampshade" <gree...@partaaaay.com> wrote in message
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Yeah, I remember Prescott's rape rooms...
Idiot.
Lord Gow333, Conservative Renegade!!!
"CrossfaceWalls" <Crossfa...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Yeah, that was back when war was between organized govts and one would
eventually surrender, IIRC.
Remember when the libs were the ones concerned about human rights? Only if
there's votes involved, I guess...