yesterday i linked to a story about the construction of the us embassy in iraq

it cost well over 500 million dollars (and i'm guessing that's nowhere near where it will eventually cost). it was built like the first piece of 'furniture' i built when i took woodshop as a senior in high school (i had all of my credits but they wouldn't let me graduate early. so i took all sorts of FUN classes as a senior. woodshop ended up being fun but since i had NEVER before done anything with wood except pound in a nail, you can only imagine how my first piece looked. it was a 'whatnot' shelf by the way.)

now they want to form an oversight committee to go over the delays, the expenses and the problems? NOW? what about before? before 592 million was thrown down the drain?

what are they going to do? who are they going to punish?

you see not even people who commit treason have to serve time if they're friends with king george or his court members.

Oversight committee to probe embassy construction in Baghdad

Michael Roston

Amid reports of escalating trouble in the construction of the new US Embassy in Baghdad, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform announced that it would investigate the project to build what will be America's largest overseas diplomatic post.
"The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing on construction delays and problems plaguing the U.S. Embassy construction project in Baghdad, a $592 million project," said the release from the Oversight Committee sent to RAW STORY. "The hearing will examine the performance, billing, and labor practices of government contractors, including the record of oversight of contractors by the United States government."......