Almost FEMA-Like in Competency


Heckuva Job:

Rebuilding failures by one of the most heavily criticized companies working in Iraq, the American construction giant Parsons, were much more widespread than previously disclosed and touched on nearly every aspect of the company’s operation in the country, according to a report released Monday by a federal oversight agency...

...the new report, by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, an independent federal agency, examined nearly 200 Parsons construction projects contained in 11 major "job orders" paid for in a huge rebuilding contract. There were also three other nonconstruction orders. The total cost of the work to the United States was $365 million.

But, not to worry--some of the projects are being taken over by...The Army Corps of Engineers.

You can't make this stuff up.

Meanwhile, more people are evidently unaware of the astonishing success of the surge, generating a statement from Ambassador Crocker that displays an equivalent competence...you know, if it wasn't so tragically deadly, you could liken it to the old joke about economists--when presented with real world data that contradicts the economic model...the proper response is to deny reality.