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2008-07-18 Iraq

Shocking Development: Contractors Hired Foreigners

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Posted by Bobby 2008-07-18 05:58|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Does this include the air-guard guys who keep getting caught by low-hanging powerlines from the tangles of freelance electrical infrastructure over public throughways? Or is that why the study only goes back to September 2003? Because I seem to remember one of our local Iraq losses was killed in that fashion during the original invasion.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-07-18 07:37|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-07-18 07:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Several times in the past I have had to go behind and clean up wiring mistakes made by 'professional' (lisenced, union) electricians right here in the USA. Little things, like finding three prong outlets on ungrounded wires, copper service bus bars and connectors on aluminum wires - and loose at that (discovered because molten metal was sizzling as it hit the water in the flooded basement.) Etc. So not sure 'foreign' or 'non-English-speaking' is the whole problem.

Posted by Menhaden S 2008-07-18 08:11|| 2008-07-18 08:11|| Front Page Top

#3 One of the requirements for those contracts in Iraq was the hiring of Iraqis.

Are those the foreigners they are talking about?

I wouldn't wipe my butt with this report.

Posted by James Carville 2008-07-18 10:56|| 2008-07-18 10:56|| Front Page Top

#4 My thoughts, exactly, James. Sounds like disgruntled private contractors lost out on an opportunity to gouge the government to allow training of locals.

Posted by Danielle 2008-07-18 11:15|| 2008-07-18 11:15|| Front Page Top

#5 (discovered because molten metal was sizzling as it hit the water in the flooded basement.)

And he sed it was a feature. :(

Posted by .5MT 2008-07-18 12:26|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-07-18 12:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Why are we worried about wiring defects? According to Obama, we won't be staying long enough for it to matter.

Posted by Steve White 2008-07-18 12:42|| 2008-07-18 12:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Sounds like disgruntled private contractors lost out on an opportunity to gouge the government to allow training of locals

More like KBR got around the union-only rule.

Posted by Pappy 2008-07-18 14:48|| 2008-07-18 14:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Lest we fergit > WOT > GLOBAL AFL-CIO, etal. = WAR FOR GLOBAL UNIONISM/UNIONIZATION, among other premises.

D *** NG IT, DARE "LUNAR-SPACE UNIONS"???

All together now, MMMUUUUULLLLTTTIIIPPPAASSSS...!

HMMMMM, HMMMMM, in my own weird way, I'm wondering what JIMBO HOFFA would think.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-07-18 20:08|| 2008-07-18 20:08|| Front Page Top

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