i really am getting sick

of writing about this shite. now if the REST of the american people would join me, we'd be all set (and we'd demand a halt). i'm one voice, some of my blogging friends are other voices. we still need MORE

DynaCorp Manager Used Armored Car To Transport Hookers In Iraq
Some explosive testimony this afternoon from a panel of whistleblowers testifying before a Senate committee on contractor abuse in Iraq.
A contractor died when a DynCorp manager used an employee’s armored car to transport prostitutes, according to Barry Halley, a Worldwide Network Services employee working under a DynCorp subcontract.
“DynCorp’s site manager was involved in bringing prostitutes into hotels operated by DynCorp. A co-worker unrelated to the ring was killed when he was travelling in an unsecure car and shot performing a high-risk mission. I believe that my co-worker could have survived if he had been riding in an armored car. At the time, the armored car that he would otherwise have been riding in was being used by the contractor’s manager to transport prostitutes from Kuwait to Baghdad.“.............

another one

it's not blackwater THIS time though. same results.
granted we weren't there. granted witness statements may not be accurate. BUT this is THEIR country. WE illegally and immorally invaded it. we have NO RIGHT to be there.

Security Guard Fires From Convoy, Killing Iraqi Driver
By JAMES GLANZ
BAGHDAD, Nov. 11 — An Iraqi taxi driver was shot and killed on Saturday by a guard with DynCorp International, a private security company hired to protect American diplomats here, when a DynCorp convoy rolled past a knot of traffic on an exit ramp in Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Sunday. Three witnesses said the taxi had posed no threat to the convoy, and one of them, an Iraqi Army sergeant who inspected the car afterward, said it contained no weapons or explosive devices.
“They just killed a man and drove away,” Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, an Interior Ministry spokesman, said in his office on Sunday afternoon. He added later, “We have opened an investigation, and we have contacted the company and told them about our accusations, and we are still waiting for their response.”............

so let me get this straight

they find something 'questionable' (i.e. a lost accounting of at LEAST a BILLION dinars) so instead of DEMANDING THE MONEY BACK AND FIRING THE ASSES OF cheney's kbr (an arm of halliburton), they keep them AND add an additonal two contractors. well now two OTHER contractors (who lost out initially) are questioning how the contract was awarded. the gao is reconsidering....................(somehow kbr is NEVER going to be excluded though. you and i both know that)

Protest Leads Army to Reconsider Big Contract

By Dana Hedgpeth Washington Post Staff Writer
One of the biggest military contracts to house, feed and provide other services to U.S. military troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait may be canceled and renegotiated after the Government Accountability Office said yesterday that it upheld a protest from two teams that lost the bid.
The $150 billion contract, known as the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, or LOGCAP IV, spans 10 years and was awarded in June to three companies -- Fluor Intercontinental of Greenville, S.C., DynCorp International of Fort Worth and KBR of Houston.
Two losing teams, Contingency Management Group and IAP Worldwide Services, filed protests in July questioning the award of the contract. Both teams alleged that the bids were evaluated improperly by the Army Sustainment Command and "argued that the agency's evaluation of proposals was unreasonable," according to a statement released by the GAO. .............