the government should demand a $132 million refund from the Kuwaiti company that built most of it,

Should they, yes.

Will they, no.

Just another fine example of private companies doing things better and cheaper.

Just take Cheney and Bremer and Bush's kickbacks and that'll cover the overages. But since Kuwait was part of the invincible Coalition of the Willing to Scam, righties honor them.

Just take Cheney and Bremer and Bush's kickbacks

#2 | Posted by northguy3

I don't usualy ask for links but I would sure like to see this one.

There's a decent chance this war was started to enable war profiteers. At the very least our government doesn't care about war profiteers stealing from us.

At the very least our government doesn't care about war profiteers stealing from us.

#4 | Posted by Sully

They wern't even US firms that were doing the work over there.

The American People Deserve all our tax money that we, the American people, have been spending rebuilding Iraq.

Also, we should be able to sue the Bushes and Cheneys and get back all the profit they have been making due to the war.

"Builder First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting, which was awarded $470 million in no-bid contracts on the project,"

Why would we give the contract to Kuwaiti's???
Why would we give a no-bid contract???

"There's a decent chance this war was started to enable war profiteers."

Gee, you think?

I don't usualy ask for links but I would sure like to see this one.

#3 | POSTED BY SNIPER

you think there is a publicized link showing that Cheney and Bush have been profiting from Afghanistan and Iraq?

I know that GWB is a moron, but hes greedy too, theres no way any of them would leave a paper trail for anyone to find.
Cheney and Bush Sr have been around since Nixon, they have learned from their mistakes.

A distinction without a difference Snipe.

The US granted the contract in all likelyhood, without competitive bidding and certainly without sufficient quality control.

American citizens, during WW2 were very sensitive to the evil of proffiteers; every citizen was working harder and doing without meat, cheese, products of all description. They were all contributing to the war effort and had a personal stake in its success.

Today's citizen turns a blind eye on this treasonous activity and doinks here defend the whole rip off, just like you did Snipdoink.

Why would we give the contract to Kuwaiti's???
Why would we give a no-bid contract???

#7 | POSTED BY DANNI

well, Kuwaiti's hate Iraq and the Iraqi people.

plus they were close.

and I am assuming that 470 million isn't enough money to do decent job.

plus theres all that sand, and im sure they were using american rulers with inches and feet and got confused cause it wasnt metric.

Yeah but they did use imported italian sand in the golf course sand trap, seems they couldn't find any laying around the construction site.

I don't usualy ask for links but I would sure like to see this one.

They wern't even US firms that were doing the work over there.

The US firms that were doing work over there sucked even worse, but that's beside the point.

Anyone that doesn't think Bush, Cheney and a whole herd of other republicans that engineered the war didn't profit from it needs their head examined.

See your shrink sniper before your delusional mental state get's any worst.

When Haliburton moved out of the United States I think it should have pretty much told you everything you needed to know.

On the bright side, at least the job didn't go to the bin laden group.

Nearly $9 billion of money spent on Iraqi reconstruction is unaccounted for because of inefficiencies and bad management, according to a watchdog report published Sunday.

An inspector general's report said the U.S.-led administration that ran Iraq until June 2004 is unable to account for the funds.

"Severe inefficiencies and poor management" by the Coalition Provisional Authority has left auditors with no guarantee the money was properly used," the report said.

"Severe inefficiences and poor management", wasn't that Bush's campaign platform?

"Severe inefficiencies and poor management", wasn't that Bush's campaign platform?

#15 | Posted by northguy3

Not exactly what he promised.....but that IS his style of Management.
Well-that and Bankruptcy....

even when outsourcing projects that america have failed to properly complete in the past, we still end up failing.

we kill more third world people and unborn babies than everyone else on the planet though. that should count for somethin, like a special grammy award...

But, but the GOP has promised for decades that private enterprise is more efficient than government...

The decision to build such a large embassy was flawed, like every other thing Cheney-Bush planned (didn't plan?) in Iraq. Isn't it "amusing" to hear Dick Cheney criticizing Obama for "dithering" on Afghanistan, with his legacy of disaster combined with Halliburton cash-flow. What a guy!

"They wern't even US firms that were doing the work over there."

Regardless of who ripped us off we should try to get our money back or at least publicly out them.

And there are several US firms that have been caught providing substard services to our military while charging top dollar.

Apologists will wave the flag and talk about supporting our troops but they really only support the troops so far as they don't have to contradict any of their pre-packaged ideological talking points in doing so.

"Regardless of who ripped us off we should try to get our money back or at least publicly out them."

NO offense Sully but you do realize they are laughing at us and our complaining about their construction. Kuwaiti's were glad when we rescued them from Saddam then didn't do one thing to show they appreciated our efforts. They should be told, if anyone ever invades your country again, you're on your own. We should NEVER again "rescue" any member of OPEC, and y'all do realize Iraq is, was, and always will be a member of Opec. We rescued Kuwait from Saddam, and Iraq from Saddam but both nations are still determined to use the oil cartel to try and bankrupt our economy.

The decision to build such a large embassy was flawed...

You are assuming that what they were building was an embassy.

The fact is that we were building the most heavily fortified military fort in the Middle East and Asia. God only knows what we buried under the fort and even God was likely hoodwinked too.

In the end it will be a good investment if we ever win the war there and don't leave from sheer exhaustion trying to civilize a bunch of goat herders.

Greed Driven Oil Wars are a "Civilizing Process"???

"if we ever win the war there and don't leave from sheer exhaustion trying to civilize a bunch of goat herders."

So the US Military's "Illegal" BOMBING of Iraq and murdering over 1 million innocent Iraqis is the American "Civilizing" process is it???

Depleted uranium will be the worst of it for many years to come.

The percentage of deformed infants is skyrocketing. Fallujah has the highest infant mortality rate in Iraq.

You know the Bushites who supported this Illegal Invasion of Iraq aught to go there and help clean it up. Now THAT would rock as far as I am concerned.

Larry

The Bushies believed in "free enterprise" and "private initiative" the same way the crooks who cobbled together the American transcontinental railway believed in that stuff: grifter jive for the masses, underwritten by taxpayer-supported welfare -- read: loot -- for the corporate swine.

Ringmaster - what you say makes it even more flawed.

The Soviets used to talk about "American Imperialism" - and this is exactly what Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld at al were trying to achieve.
A completely outdated philosophy. But what can you expect from those guys?

US Deserves Refund?

What hubris. The US attacked that country based on baldfaced lies of Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda & 9/11, which reduced that country to a dysfunctional heap. All to the tune of $1 Trillion, and the US Taxpayer got exactly what it paid for. The play is reaching it's final act. Time for Uncle Sam to admit defeat (Chinese have the big oil contracts), shut up, pack his bags, and go home. Thank you George W. Bush for a job well done...