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| Troops are not for NATION BUILDING. They are for BASE BUILDING. by Zseni 01/19/2007, 8:45am PST | ||||
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| Actually, violently overpaid contractors are for base-building.
"KBR’s first big building contract there, in June 2003, was a $200 million project to build and maintain "temporary housing units" for U.S. troops. Since then, according to military documents, it has received another $8.5 billion for work associated with Operation Iraqi Freedom. By far the largest sum—at least $4.5 billion—has gone to construction and maintenance of U.S. bases." You know why Koba isn't posting? I don't either, but I do know that your enlistment can be extended indefinitely now. Goes great with a very un-GQ look at a very un-GQ hater of pork: Senator Coburn. "Almost as soon as Coburn proposed to eliminate the bridge, Ted Stevens came tearing down to the floor of the Senate with his face red and his fists clenched, bellowing that he would not be treated with such disrespect, that the rest of the Senate would have to rise up and protect his project or he, Ted Stevens, would pack up his bags and quit the Senate and never come back. By the end of the day, eighty-two senators had voted with Stevens. Voted to spend $200 million on a bridge to nowhere, while Tom Coburn could find only fourteen members to agree that the money might be better spent somewhere else—like, say, rebuilding New Orleans." |
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Troops are not for NATION BUILDING. They are for BASE BUILDING. by 01/19/2007, 8:45am PST  Re: Troops are not for NATION BUILDING. They are for BASE BUILDING. by 01/19/2007, 8:09pm PST |
