Comments on: Bechtel Says Bye-Bye To Iraq http://donklephant.com/2006/11/02/bechtel-says-bye-bye-to-iraq/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kevin http://donklephant.com/2006/11/02/bechtel-says-bye-bye-to-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-95729 Kevin Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:47:35 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/11/02/bechtel-says-bye-bye-to-iraq/#comment-95729 Justin, I'm going to have to call bullshit on your opening snark. According to the article this company finished 97 out of 99 projects. The 2 were dropped due to security reasons. Other projects were later destroyed due to security failures. It's terrible what has happened to the reconstruction effort but the problem here wasn't no-bid contracts. And it wasn't having the wrong company do the job. It was a lack of security. Justin, I’m going to have to call bullshit on your opening snark. According to the article this company finished 97 out of 99 projects. The 2 were dropped due to security reasons. Other projects were later destroyed due to security failures.

It’s terrible what has happened to the reconstruction effort but the problem here wasn’t no-bid contracts. And it wasn’t having the wrong company do the job. It was a lack of security.

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