Recently I had several posts about the Americans that have killed in Iraq…not by IUDs or snipers or rockets…..no killed, electrocuted while taking as shower. Now the company that is being investigated over these deaths gets a new contract. Why?
Defense contractor KBR Inc. has been awarded a $35 million Pentagon contract involving major electrical work, even as it is under criminal investigation in the electrocution deaths of at least two U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
The announcement of the new KBR contract came just months after the Pentagon, in strongly worded correspondence obtained by The Associated Press, rejected the company’s explanation of serious mistakes in Iraq and its proposed improvements. A senior Pentagon official, David J. Graff, cited the company’s “continuing quality deficiencies” and said KBR executives were “not sufficiently in touch with the urgency or realities of what was actually occurring on the ground.”
Graff rejected the company’s claims that it wasn’t required to follow U.S. electrical codes for its work on U.S. military facilities in Iraq. KBR has said it would cost an extra $560 million to refurbish buildings in Iraq used by the U.S. military, including Saddam Hussein‘s palaces, which among other problems are based on a 220-volt standard rather than the American 120-volt standard.
KBR announced last week it won a new $35.4 million contract from the Army Corps of Engineers to design and build a convoy support center at Camp Adder in southern Iraq. It will include a power plant, electrical distribution center, water purification and distribution systems, wastewater and information systems and road paving.
Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said the new KBR contract was inappropriate. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said he has formally asked the Corps of Engineers whether it was confident KBR could accomplish it and whether the Corps had any alternatives.
“KBR has not been debarred, suspended, nor have they been proposed for debarment from government contracting,” Corps spokeswoman Joan Kibler said.
KBR was previously owned by Halliburton Co., the oil services conglomerate that former Vice President Dick Cheney once led. Democrats have long complained it benefited from ties to Cheney.
Let me see if I have this about right? We are holding people in Gitmo that have done little more than think about killing Americans and we have a company linked directly with American deaths and they some how get the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it is time to rethink this whole “justice” thing. Thoughts?
morning lobotero;
believe we had this conversation before about it being swept under the rug. Now they are being rewarded for killing our own people. Our troops survive roadside bombs only to die while taking a shower..due to negligence..how do you protect against that?
I bet all would be a lot different if a general had died……I mean after all it is grunts dying not like they are all that important (that is sarcasm).
I would seriously read what you write prior to posting so that you do not look like your a simpleton. IED not IUD
well…well…cholo….thanx for correcting me…my guess is you are a KBR employee.
Ryan Maseth, 24, was a Staff Sgt. a Green Beret and Everett was a Sgt.
Lonotero,
Well your guess is incorrect. I do not support those that do harm to Americans but at the same time it would behoove you to make sure that you do not portray a soldier who died regardless of Enlisted Rank or Officer status in a meaningless fassion even when done so in sarcasm. The loss of life is never good and as Dwight Eisenhower stated “The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.”
Cholo
Since you like correcting so much..it is lobotero…my unit in war….i have given my country enough of my body to be as sarcastic as I like…2 wars and several unofficial…..it is a CRIME when an American company KILLS American soldiers in their pursuit of profit. KBR’s officers should be held responsible for all the deaths and should NOT be allowed any contracts now and in the future. The American soldier deserves better treatment than that….if my sarcasm will bring attention toi the plight of the soldiers then I will accept any and all criticism because few are listening to what is happening to these people in Iraq. THe management of KBR are the ones that need to be at Gitmo or at least make them test all their work before a soldier is exposed to them.
I have been posting on this as long as it has been in the news….go to my search and type in KBR to see my other posts….