Title: KBR got contract despite shoddy wiring - KBR President denies any wrongdoing in at least five soldier's deaths Source:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/vidPlayer.aspx?videoId=13222 URL Source:http://www.onenewsnow.com/vidPlayer.aspx?videoId=13222 Published:May 23, 2009 Author:Mike Frossia Post Date:2009-05-23 03:14:16 by HAPPY2BME-4UM Keywords:None Views:110 Comments:10
KBR got contract despite shoddy wiring An electrician hired by the Army to inspect electrical work at Iraqi facilities for U.S. soldiers says 90 percent of wiring done in new buildings by military contractor KBR, Inc. was done improperly. KBR's CEO is defending his company's work.
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Not only is the US military taxed beyond imagination by Iraq, the ravished campaigns there and in Afghanistan have lost the high moral ground so disparately needed in this dark hour.
We should have stopped in Afghanistan.
If honorable military operational strategy and logic had prevailed, as was our tradition up until the Vietnam War, the entire world would be eating out of our hand instead of trying to destroy us.
They need all the help and support they can get with the impossible mission given them by George W. Bush.
Divine Intervention is the only thing now that can save this country.
This Memorial Day, I salute this US Army Company Grade officer for doing the very best he can with what he was handed by his former CINC . .
I had a dream the other night, I didn’t understand. A figure walking through the mist, with flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty, as he stood there by the bed,
He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low, he said:
“We fought a revolution, to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution, as a shield from tyranny, For future generations, this legacy we gave, In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
“The freedom we secured for you, we hoped you’d always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly, while your parents were asleep. Your freedom gone, your courage lost, you’re no more than a slave,
In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
“You buy permits to travel, and permits to own a gun, Permits to start a business, or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent, Although you have no voice in choosing how the money’s spent.”
“Your children must attend a school that doesn’t educate. Your Christian values can’t be taught, according to the state. You read about the current news, in a regulated press. You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the I.R.S.”
“Your money is no longer made of silver or of gold. You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God in shame, You’ve taken Satan’s number, as you’ve traded in your name.”
“You’ve given government control to those who do you harm, So they can padlock churches, and steal the family farm, And keep the country deep in debt, put men of God in jail, Harass your fellow countrymen, while corrupted courts prevail.”
“Your public servants don’t uphold the solemn oath they’ve sworn.
Your daughters visit doctors so their children won’t be born. Your leaders ship artillery and guns to foreign shores, And send your sons to slaughter, fighting other people’s wars.”
“Can you regain freedom for which we fought and died? Or don’t you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? Are there no more values for which you’ll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave?”
“Sons of the Republic, arise and take a stand! Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land!
Preserve our great republic and each God-given right, And pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright!”
As I awoke he vanished, in the mist from which he came. His words were true, we are not free. We have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God-given right, We only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight.
If he stood by your bedside, in a dream while you’re asleep, And wondered what remains of our rights he fought to keep, What would be your answer, if he called out from the grave?
Is this still the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?
President Bush visits wounded troops...but British leaders dare not follow his lead Post Date: 2007-11-09 22:29:27 by Happy2BMe-OnLP 8 Comments President Bush visits wounded troops...but British leaders dare not follow his lead President George W Bush has paid an emotional visit to soldiers maimed or badly burned in combat. His visit came as senior British military figures said the Armed Forces were 'paying the price in blood' for years of underfunding. President George W Bush has paid an emotional visit to soldiers maimed or badly burned in combat. His visit came as senior British military figures said the Armed Forces were 'paying the price in blood' for years of underfunding. During the President's visit to the new £30.7million Brooke Army Medical Centre for veterans Mr Bush vowed to modernize the military care system. ...
William Utt said that the standards that KBR employed were "known and approved in an expeditionary environment".
Translation: "We expected outrageous sums of money to electrify dwellings without performing the crucial task of driving ground electrodes and bonding all services to them." This makes as much sense as saying "We didn't think we had to install fire extinguishers near petrol storage dumps because it was a hot zone and we were supposed to be mobile." If they were going to be there long enough to build and wire showers they were there long enough to ground the goddam things! And, even Gen. Sanchez could not have signed off on unsafe work in direct contravention of the mandatory rules for safe electrical installations any more than he could have issued a memo suspending the safe storage of explosives and jet fuel. "Uh, it's okay to put the fuel in glass jars and set them on top of the "E" Club wall there, boys!"NOT!
Yeah, it would have been a bitch to drive ground rods in that hard, dry, rocky sandy desert, and in that killer heat to boot! I'm sure they had the AC running on temp power inside and none of those prima donna 150k per year electricians would go outside and do that nasty job with sledge hammers. And then they'd have to set up a regular route to wet the ground near those ground rods on a regular schedule, and who wanted that menial, shitty responsibility? Or worse yet, which KBR supervisor would even recommend such a regimen to the military if they were already getting away with murder?
But, like it or not there are no exceptions to the grounding rules of the code. No temporary shelter, office trailer, tool shed, DAWG kennnels or any other occupied dwelling may be energized with portable generators or grid power from the Haditha Dam turbines unless said dwellings are grounded.
Proper grounding would have saved lives because the instant those pipes, appliances or even the shower water was electrified the breakers/GFCIs would have tripped and interrupted the current flow. And then the faults would have been isolated and corrected before power could have been restored. (If someone disconnected the ground to hide the faults and restore service then he, she or they are criminals and at the very least guilty of negligent homicide. And, it just blows my mind that people died from circumstances that were totally avoidable.)
There is no excuse for those deaths and injuries, and there is no contractual escape chute or other affirmative defense other than KBR's possible political connections to allow those corporate rats to slip through some legal keyhole.
Hell, the slums of Rio are wired better than that (with stolen electrical service and wires running every which way-a bird can barely fly between houses there without getting killed) but no one is electrocuted while showering there!
I'd like to hear Utt explain how it is that 3rd world bootleg wiremen can do it better than KBR contractors when the latter are supposed to be pros and they have all the new equipment they could ever ask for.
I'd like to hear Utt explain how it is that 3rd world bootleg wiremen can do it better than KBR contractors when the latter are supposed to be pros and they have all the new equipment they could ever ask for.
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Better yet, I'd like to see him take a shower installed by his own company in Iraq.
Doesn't it annoy the snot out of you when Cheney raves on and on about rogue Arabs he's like to have tortured, and never says a word about illegal immigration?
Doesn't it annoy the snot out of you when Cheney raves on and on about rogue Arabs he's like to have tortured, and never says a word about illegal immigration?
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Almost as much as it does when Bush did it.
And Karl Rove is now a paid counselor on Faux News.
