Posts at Cynics' Party, where I also blog, usually fall into a few reliable categories - the Dear Leader’s stupid war, the hooker usage of politicians, the Barry Hussein/Hillary cage match, the Psychogeezer, and assfucking. So it’s nice when I can economize and hit more than one of these themes at a time:
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.“
More contractor recklessness after the jump.
Gotta have the basics - food, water, shelter, hookers …
Other revelations:
- Kellogg Brown & Root contractors used to destroy countless quantities of still-usable equipment that was difficult to transport in “massive burn pits” that were “burning 24 hours a day.”
- KBR’s ice foreman “was cheating the troops out of ice at the same time that he was trading the ice for DVDs, CDs, food and other items at the Iraqi shops across the street.”
- When KBR whistleblower Frank Cassaday reported weapons looting, he was placed in a jail tent by KBR security.
- KBR employees looted Iraqi palaces for treasure to sell on eBay.
Your tax dollars at work. Next the Pentagon will save a few steps and come out with armored hookers. What a blog post that’ll be!
This is the American entrepreneurial spirit at it's best! War is Hell if you can't turn a buck.
Posted by: Lew Scannon | April 30, 2008 at 03:06 AM
Well, what would you rather have? Ice or hookers?
Perhaps the ultimate gift ... ICE HOOKERS!
I smell a sequel to "Lars and the Real Girl."
Posted by: tafka pb | April 30, 2008 at 07:49 AM