The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has issued a safety alert to US commanders today cautioning that because of potentially “significant contract fraud” a deal to protect troops from IEDs.
According to their preliminary investigation, the unnamed contractor was paid $361,680 to install gratings on culverts along Afghan highways to prevent insurgents from installing IEDs underneath the highways.
In many cases, the gratings were never installed in the first place. When they were, many were just defective and easy to circumvent. The gratings, called “culvert denial systems,” don’t deny anyone.
Officials conceded that it was unusual to put out a safety alert before the investigation had completed, but insisted the seriousness of the allegations warranted putting commanders on alert about the threat.
Jeezus! In the good old days they used to name the criminals that were responsible for such criminal negligence. Like Corzine, the Wall St Banksters and Pharma killing hundreds of thousands. Never a trial and always anonymous or better yet, re-purposed to other criminal posts. In this new bizarro world the 1% elitists hide behind the curtain of anonymity while the citizens are tazed to death and pedo's grope babies and grandmothers at the airports. What a pathetic Banana Republic GULAG the zionazi's have of made the US.
But he got paid! That's the point, right? Keynes and all that, ya know? And if soldiers get killed that's more benefit money going into the economy, which is the point after all, right? And the soldiers? Meh. Who cares about the cattle going into the meat grinder?
I hope that this contractor is some crooked Afghan – I'd hate to think that we sent some crooks from an American 500 Company over there at hundreds of dollars per day per diem, when we could have gotten the same lousy service, for pennies on the dollar, from locals.
Seriously, it is time to leave. I can hear the lyrics in my head "Just get on the bus, Gus ; no need to discuss much…).
At last night's VP debate, Candidate Ryan kept talking about the need to "preserve our gains over there" – and these words actually came out of his mouth – they may as well come out of his …..
This incident shows to the world that the U.S. is incapable of managing anything let alone the world.
What was that song about 'Bring in the Clowns'?
'Don't bother, they're Here!'