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Sunday, December 16, 2007

how many more

32 million dollar incomplete projects ARE THERE? it's OUR money. i don't want it going to the further destruction of iraq (well since we DESTROYED it i think we're liable to help rebuild it). we have returning vets (on top of a whole LIST of things we could use 32 million for) that sure could use that money for treatment, job training, homes, education and on and on

MAKE THEM ALL ACCOUNTABLE NOW
U.S. paid $32M for Iraqi base that wasn't built
By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army units even though nothing was ever built, Pentagon investigators reported.
The project had to be abandoned because the Iraqi Defense Ministry couldn't obtain rights to the land where the headquarters were to be built, according to a report released this month by the Defense Department's Office of Inspector General. Contracting records show the buildings would have housed one brigade and three battalions of the Iraqi military in Ramadi, a hotbed of the Sunni Muslim insurgency and capital of Anbar province.
Still, the Air Force agency overseeing the project paid contractor Ellis Environmental Group $31.9 million of the $34.2 million obligated for the project, the report said.
An Air Force spokesman, Michael
Hawkins, said in an e-mail that Air Force auditors are reviewing the contract...............

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

When you're president, Rose, can I receive 32 million dollars for doing nothing? I'll make a corporation and shift the money offshore immediately to avoid taxes and everything, just like a good Rethuglican.

Unknown said...

i wonder who the peeps at ellis are related to in king george's court