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Friday, July 27, 2007

aw so now we find out we employ slave labor (surprise surprise)

and what will be done about this? the same thing that's done about EVERYTHING king george and his good ol' boys touch. NADA

the king george and his court motto: AT ANY COST

(and they DO mean ANY cost including the lives of a few thousand american men and women AND the united states constitution)

Foreign Workers Abused at Embassy, Panel Told


By William Branigin Washington Post Staff Writer

Two American civilian contractors who worked on a massive U.S. Embassy construction project in Baghdad told Congress yesterday that foreign laborers were deceptively recruited and trafficked to Iraq to toil at the site, where they experienced physical abuse and substandard working conditions.
State Department officials disputed the charges, telling a House committee that inspections had not substantiated the worst reported abuses.
The accounts were delivered at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on allegations of waste, fraud and abuse in the construction of a huge new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad at a cost of nearly $600 million. The embassy, slated to be the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in the world, is being built by a Kuwaiti firm, First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting Co., which was awarded the contract after no U.S. company would meet the terms, the committee was told..........

3 comments:

Neil Shakespeare said...

Another amazing waste and fraud perpetrated on the American People. As the "insurgency" perfects their aim it seems only a matter of time before that 600 million dollar boondoggle is reduced to the dust it rose from.

Anonymous said...

great . . . what next? revival of our own slave trade . . . or better yet, debt prisons and indentured servitude.

Trapping them in Iraq working on our palace (embassy) is just a first step.

Unknown said...

well you're both far more articulate than i am, but i think the three of us see this with the same light. one that is going to be extinguished. never had a chance to burn brightly