KBR, US Contractor in Iraq Charged with Negligent Homicide

There are now 18 US soldiers who are dead because they were electrocuted on American bases, many of them built by KBR. KBR is a Houston-based American company contracted by our government to provide shelter, food, and basic services for our troops. KBR, once a division of Halliburton, has been charged with negligent homicide in the death of only one of these soldiers, so far. The company was notified about faulty wiring and grounding problems many times over, over a period of months, beforehand, and did nothing!

Until this past May, KBR had a monopoly on the food facilities and basic services contract, earning $24 billion since the Iraq war began. Consider how much wealth KBR, which had already been accused of mismanagement, has now amassed since it acquired the huge no-bid, cost-plus contract through its political ties to now former Vice President Cheney. If KBR and its employees are found guilty in the negligent homicide of even one of these soldiers, they should be required to serve prison time, surrender the remaining monies awarded them in their contract, and be required to leave Iraq.

The past 8 years have been replete with extensive greed and corruption, lack of oversight, complete deregulation favoring corporations over citizens, and political power plays. There was never any Congressional oversight on dollar amounts less than $1 million because this was stipulated in the contracts proferred to Bush and Cheney's political and business allies. When our government uses our hard-earned money, it has an obligation to monitor how every penny is spent and the quality control of the work performed on each and every contract. As I've stated before, cost-plus, no-bid contracts should be illegal.

ARRRRRGH! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

I think Bush, Cheney and Paulson all need to resign. Shame on them and everyone else responsible for this, now global, mess. They should all be prosecuted, possibly even be named in a civil suit, as they have compromised our national security. Their poor leadership and outright greed have driven our economy into the ground. Deregulation, my foot! I honestly can NOT believe anyone who purposefully removes protective regulations put in place after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, to prevent it from happening again, had no clue that this would occur. So, idiocy or premeditation, they all need to resign and be held responsible!

And now AIG gets another bailout right after they take a bunch of insurance agents on a junket to an elite Southern California golf resort and spa. They did this to the tune of over $400,000 for things such as hotel rooms, massages and manicures! While the rest of us are struggling, the money for their junket was taken straight out of our meager pockets through the first AIG bailout! This gets more and more ridiculous and outrageous! When are they going to give the taxpayer a bailout? Maybe we could take the money for our bailout from the bank accounts and financial holdings of the executives responsible. After all, they've made billions of dollars at our expense!