Heckuva Job, Pickles

[kpete]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Construction of a children's hospital championed by first lady
Laura Bush has been put on hold after it fell behind schedule and went over budget, one of dozens of halted or delayed U.S. health projects, Iraqi health officials said Friday.

The high-tech, two-story children's hospital in Basra was intended to provide state-of-the-art care in
Iraq's second-largest city. The first lady and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke highly of the project and lobbied Congress for the money.

But U.S. officials dropped contractor Bechtel Corp. from the project after it missed deadlines and ran up big cost overruns, Dr. Chasib Latif Ali, executive director of the Health Ministry, told The Associated Press. Bechtel Corp. blamed the problem on Iraq's security crisis.

Ali said the Basra hospital was just one example of health projects that the U.S. had promised but failed to deliver.

"The Americans have made a lot of promises to us, but not even 10 percent of them have materialized," Ali said.

more at:
http://miaculpa.blogspot.com/2006/07/heckuva-job-pickles.html

[OwnedByFerrets]

1. .......

"The Americans have made a lot of promises to us, but not even 10 percent of them have materialized,"
Is he talking about Iraq or New Orleans? :sarcasm: Could be hard to tell without context. :(

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Wow, no bid contracts - and costs are going over budget?

I'm SHOCKED I tells ya! SHOCKED!

[Cleita]

4. I am beyond that and am really disgusted.

:mad:

[Cleita]

3. Bechtel another Cheney crony corporation.

This big mess in reconstruction is because they didn't put the contracts out for bids on the world market. They just appointed their buddies for all these projects who have collected their money but have not done much of anything else.

This corruption is like nothing I have ever seen in my life.

[OwnedByFerrets]

5. And with no oversight,

they can take their money and live as rich rethugs for the rest of their lives.

[NYC]

6. People criticized Boss Tweed.

Corrupt, lots of money to cronies, but we have some beautiful buildings still standing. Yes, they greatly overcharged, but they delivered. (at least in some instances)

Boss Tweed was synonymous with corruption. I think he can take a back seat now.

William Marcy Tweed

[EFerrari]

7. Me, either, Cleita. The first person I heard talking about the

fake Iraq improvements was Medea Benjamin when she was on Washington Journal and that was now years ago.

We have not "liberated" Iraq".

Things there are not BETTER for women.

We have not improved their infrastructure even to the dismal state it was in when we were bombing it with Freedom Rounds.

:(