[lbo-talk] Re: money for Bechtel/the story NOT told

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--- Paul <paul_ at igc.org> wrote:
> 
> >Doug writes
> >Yup, you've got a point. But so many things that
> should have been 
> >accomplished haven't been. Why did they look the
> other way when the 
> >"looting" was going on last April? Why haven't they
> guarded water mains 
> >and oil pipelines more effectively? Why was Saddam
> able to get the 
> >electricity running after GW I while the U.S.
> forces can't? There may be 
> >good answers that don't include intentional
> chaos-mongering, but I can't 
> >think of any.

Never underestimate the stupidity and incompetence of
the military. This is the institution that invented
the term SNAFU -- situation normal, all fucked up --
and about which Heller wrote the immortal tribute to
bureaucratic idiocy, Catch-22. jks

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