|
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Heavens to MurgatroydIt seems oceans of US taxpayer money have been sucked away in boondoggles with corrupt American contractors who don't even have command of the English language, much less their own prison and hospital contracts:
In some cases, the reports found, the clinics [built by Parsons Corporation] were little more than empty shells of uneven bricks and concrete that were already crumbling into dust. What does the contractor have to say for itself?
"Parsons performed our work in Iraq in conformance with the contract terms and the direction given to us by the U.S. government," said the spokeswoman, Erin Kuhlman, by e-mail. Conformance, my ass. Parsons is the proud architect of 300 million dollars' worth of rubble. And so, in a sense, is Washington.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
12:47 PM
|  |
|
|
|
|
Too Much of Nothing, a novel
Politics and Prose
about our editor
The Underground Grammarian
current Berlin blog page
 |
