Saturday, January 12, 2008
It was a pile of shit 5 months ago
When these problems were first exposed and, according to the Washington Post, it still is a pile of shit and the inspections have only scratched the surface.
The firefighting system in the massive $736 million embassy complex in Baghdad has potential safety problems that top U.S. officials dismissed in their rush to declare construction largely completed by the end of last year, according to internal State Department documents, e-mails and interviews.So the Bushoviks have poured millions of taxpayer dollars into a Kuwaiti company to cob up a building complex that would embarrass an old style Soviet builder. And despite his largess, Our Dear Embattled Leader received a modest welcome in Kuwait compared to his father. I guess it is not the Kuwaiti way to thank the suckers.
Some officials assert that in the push to complete the long-delayed project, potentially life-threatening problems have been left untouched. "This is serious enough to get someone killed," said a State Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared retaliation. "The fire systems are the tip of the iceberg. That is the most visible. But no one has ever inspected the electrical system, the power plant" and other parts of the embassy complex, which will house more than 1,000 people and is vulnerable to mortar attacks.
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