Bush Tours Once-Squalid Latrine

[underpants]

Source: Washington Post

FORT BRAGG, N.C., May 22 -- President Bush toured a spic-and-span latrine Thursday that appeared vastly improved from a month ago, when an Internet video showed raw sewage and peeling paint in barracks used to house U.S. troops returning from Afghanistan.

U.S. Army officials said $3 million has been spent since then on improvements to the Korean War-era barracks, which will eventually be replaced as part of a massive military infrastructure plan.

"These buildings are coming down," Bush said after a tour of the restroom, which was freshly painted and devoid of mold, peeling paint or other shortcomings shown in the video. "And I know you appreciate it. The soldiers appreciate it."



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/22/AR2008052203710.html?hpid=sec-nation

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3 MILLION dollars????????

[rusty_parts2001]

1. Very appropriate

Chief Latrine Inspector!

[sarge43]

3. Should have pull the peanut butter in the toilet number on the poser. n/t

[Supersedeas]

28. he's found his calling

[Selatius]

2. Then, they had to clean up the shit Bush left behind, for 3 trillion dollars. nt

[truedelphi]

4. Ya know, the very first column I ever read by Riverbend

Was a description of how the Shock and Awe campaign blew up a $ 30,000 bridge in Baghdad.

Now everyone in Baghdad knew the bridge cost $ 30K -- it had just been replaced from our earlier war.

So Riverbend says, very analytically, that perhaps inflation would cause the cost of replacing the bridge to go from $ 30 K to $ 60 K.

Or maybe even from 30 K to 300 K.

But what she couldn't accept was that we were charging off the replacement of the bridge to Kellogg Brown and Root as a THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR EXPENSE!!

And we wonder why the citizens of Iraq hate us!!

[Frustratedlady]

9. I remember that article and I believe she had an uncle who gave her the figures.

As I recall, they also would have liked the job to rebuild the bridge, rather than hiding out in their homes in fear.

I haven't seen anything by Riverbend for a while. I hope she is OK.

[underpants]

14. There was another story about the estimate to get a cement factory up and running

the US engineering firm said it would cost $5 Million or so (this is all from memory) the Iraqis took $50,000 cannabalized half of old factory and got the other side running BECAUSE THEY SO DESPERATELY NEED CEMENT within two weeks.

Something like that

[Frustratedlady]

30. If they had let the Iraqis take over and rebuild, there wouldn't have been all the fighting.

They were so frustrated and angry over having no employment or control. I am so ashamed of our government's handling of this whole fiasco.

[truedelphi]

36. Almost every dealing we have taken on part of those our governmnet purporsts to

"Liberate" Has deliberately stymied the Iraqis, kept them in squalor and without needed utilities, and as you point out, without the barest of necessities, ie cement, that they need to rebuild.

[truedelphi]

18. Her last report - five six months ago, concerned the saga of her

Family getting in their car and leaving Iraq for good.

As awful as the final eighteen months there had been, she wanted to turn back and go home. Until she looked out the car window and saw the many fires burning where only homes and farms should have peacefully stood.

[Frustratedlady]

29. How awful. Thanks for letting me know. I always enjoyed her writings.

[truedelphi]

34. I've enjoyed her writings immmensely myself

And have long marvelled at her ability to objectively stand back and report on the events surrounding herself, her family and her neighborhood.

If it I had been me there in her neighborhood, all I'd have managed would be "Fuck this S%it!"

[benld74]

5. Figures ol' shit for brains visits a latrine

[Dr.Phool]

22. He was looking for Bob Allen and Larry Craig.

[DS1]

6. 3 million bucks?

I'm surprised they just didn't deny weekend liberty to another unit and make them field day the shit out of it.

[underpants]

15. They must have bought a TON of Ajax and more than a few of these

:eyes:

That was exactly what I was thinking DS1...or is cleaning outsourced these days too???

Back in MY ARMY......

[DS1]

16. Simple green, scratch pads, a bucket and a wire brush

that's all we ever needed, back when we had to walk twelve miles to the lake to get water

[Lorien]

40. The clean up was probably done by Haliburtan. n/t

[Warpy]

7. Tearing things down after they've been fixed

seems to be a family pattern. Then they award contracts to cronies to rebuild at a hundred times the cost of complete repairs. The rebuilding job is shoddy with the maximum number of corners cut, and the repair cycle starts all over again.

We need to put that family out of business. We need to put them into prison, beggar them from lawsuits, and keep them away from hurtful things until that malevolent DNA has been diluted enough to become harmless.

[Frustratedlady]

8. Incredible! They spend $3M in one month to repair those hellholes

our military came home to just so the Prez could have a photo op with a new sink and tiled floor? Where were the automatic toilet seats where the lids saluted by lifting up in sync? (Can't remember the movie with Gomer Pyle?)

Why didn't they tear down the barracks and spend that money on rebuilding them while the military was put up in some swanky hotel or Katrina cruise ship?

Oh, well. At least Bush looks at home in a latrine.

[Journeyman]

11. The movie was "No Time for Sergeants" with Andy Griffith. . .

it was the first thing I thought of as well.

The ridiculousness of spending $3 million to repair hellholes we're going to tear down speaks for itself.

[Frustratedlady]

12. You're right! Man, I was a bit off on that one, wasn't I?

Thanks for the help.

[trogdor]

13. That was Andy Griffith

The name of the movie was "No Time For Sergeants." Awesome film.

[underpants]

17. EXACTLY....we have a PIC!!!!

[llmart]

25. Can I just say that......

in so many pictures of him he looks and walks like a pansyass wimp.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

10. And now the latrine is putrid and dirty again n/t

[Crowman1979]

19. Reminds me of NAS Atlanta.

How they built two new barracks 3 years ago and now the base will be closed down this year due to BRAC. Definitely a big waste there also.

[Dogtown]

20. His next job

should be cleaning latrines in a federal prison camp.

[Turbineguy]

21. "Captain of the Head"

That's our president.

[Trillo]

23. How's the maintenance going on buildings

that aren't due to be demolished?

[underpants]

26. Depends

is W going to need one for a photo-op?

[izquierdista]

24. What do you mean, "once" squalid?

Given his ability to turn everything he touches to shit, he should be called the "Squalidifier".

[damntexdem]

27. How did the clean the latrine, what with Dubya cutting all the brushes?

Oh, well, at least the latrine and the barracks will likely outlast Dubya's presidency.

I mean, we'd be better off with a smelly latrine and Dubya back in Crawford as a private citizen (or better, in the docks as a defendant).

[sofa king]

31. But the squalid latrine that is Bush's America is not yet fixed.

And it won't be until long after he's gone.

[xxqqqzme]

32. Wait just a f*cking minute

There is tax money to pay for military infrastructure repair(privatized no doubt)??? But the public sector has bridges falling down but no money to rebuild????? We have officially arrived @ a fascist state.

[tabasco]

33. The incompetent Bush mafia operates in "crisis mode."

They only react to crises and do not act to prevent problems.

9-11. Oops.

Rats in Walter Reed Hospital. Ooops.

Raw sewage in Army barracks. Oops.

The only thing the Bush mafia has carefully planned and executed is the unjustified war for profits in Iraq.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

35. Is this from the Onion? LMHO

[Honeycombe8]

37. I hope someone uses the pic of that squalid latrine in a campaign ad. "The face of the * admin." nt

[daleo]

38. They should name this latrine after Bush

It is an honor he richly deserves.

[mbperrin]

39. Kubrick got it right.

HARTMAN: As soon as you finish your bunks, I want you two turds to clean the head.

JOKER & COWBOY: Sir, aye-aye, sir!

HARTMAN: I want that head so sanitary and squared away that the Virgin Mary herself would be proud to go in there and take a dump!

JOKER & COWBOY: Sir, yes, sir!