Bechtel Corp calls it quits after 3 years (SFGate)

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Bechtel ends Iraq rebuilding after a rough 3 years
David R. Baker, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, November 1, 2006


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Bechtel Corp. went to Iraq three years ago to help rebuild a nation torn by war. Since then, 52 of its people have been killed and much of its work sabotaged as Iraq dissolved into insurgency and sectarian violence.

Now Bechtel is leaving.

The San Francisco engineering company's last government contract to rebuild power, water and sewage plants across Iraq expired on Tuesday. Some employees remain to finish the paperwork, but essentially, the company's job is done.

Bechtel's contracts were part of an enormous U.S. effort to put Iraq back on its feet after decades of wars and sanctions. That rebuilding campaign, once touted as the Marshall Plan of modern times, was supposed to win the hearts of skeptical Iraqis by giving them clean water, dependable power, telephones that worked and modern sanitation. President Bush said he wanted the country's infrastructure to be the very best in the Middle East.

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1. Really? And where are the employees going to relocate?

Here?

After Bechtel and other companies have raped Iraq, what might they be planning to do here in the States?

One might want to consider such actions like Bechtel "hanging it up" after the recent legislative assaults on our civil liberties have conveniently taken place.

[Demeter]

2. Bechtel To Bush. Cheney, Rummy: Get a Clue and Get OUT of Iraq!

Think the corporate masters can yank on the choke chain?