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Saturday, September 30, 2006

i have some questions

is parsons still being allowed to build? sounds like it.
why was parsons allowed to have these contracts?
did anyone investigate their PRIOR contracts and work?
why weren't they stopped sooner? why after seeing ONE building were they allowed to continue?
are we going to sue them for the money they stole from the citizens of the united states?


Congress Is Told of Failures of Rebuilding Work in Iraq

By JAMES GLANZ
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 — In a sweeping new assessment of reconstruction failures in Iraq, a federal inspector told Congress on Thursday that 13 of 14 major projects built by the American contractor Parsons that were examined by his agency were substandard, with construction deficiencies and other serious problems.
The final project, a prison near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya, was terminated for other reasons, said the inspector, Stuart Bowen, who heads the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Delays and cost overruns led to its cancellation.
Whether because the political stakes in Iraq have risen with the approach of the November elections, or simply because of the scope of the problems, Mr. Bowen’s testimony set off outrage on both sides of the political aisle on a topic — reconstruction failures — that previously was mostly in the sights of Congressional
Democrats.
“So when they get the construction right, something else goes wrong?” said Representative John M. McHugh, Republican of New York, referring to cost and schedule problems that had plagued many projects.
“Wow — thank you,” Mr. McHugh said, seemingly speechless for a moment after Mr. Bowen answered in the affirmative............

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