Bechtel pulling out of Iraq

[kpete]

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

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

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.

But Bechtel -- which charged into Iraq with American "can-do" fervor -- found it tough to keep its engineers and workers alive, much less make progress in piecing Iraq back together.

more at:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/01/BECHTEL.TMP

[whistle]

1. How much has those three years cost the U.S. tax-payers and

...what has Bechtel produced?

[seemunkee]

2. So is Parsons, another large engineering firm

Washington Group International is trying to pick up their contracts and has said they will be there as long as the US Army is there.

[Double T]

3. Just another bushco botched job to add to the LONG LIST...........

Iraq and its people NEED to rebuild their own country WITHOUT the Americans trying to milk the projects and tell the Iraqis what they should do.

[Annces]

4. Ya, when the 500,000 a year engineers start getting killed

then it is time to pull the contract. :sarcasm:


They don't mind blood money, as long as it is not their people being killed.

My sister's husband works for Bechtel. He comes from a wealthy family in Holland. It is all about the money.

[Hugin]

5. "Mission Accomplished" -- Ca-ching!

What did they do... Why they earned a profit!

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