Maybe Dubya should take Mr. Chalabi up on his offer to have the Iraqis do the job on the cheap. The way his contractor buddies are slopping at the public trough is starting to remind historians of another president with a drinking problem: Grant!
BAGHDAD -- When grease-stained technicians at the Baghdad South power plant needed spare parts recently, they first submitted a written request to Bechtel Corp., the engineering firm given more than $1 billion in U.S. government contracts to fix Iraq's decrepit infrastructure.
Then they went to the junkyard.
Maybe this is one of those feel-good stories the neo-cons are frothing for. But I don't think so; it's worth reading no matter if you''re left or right or down the center and even upside-down.
