U.S. Troops Still Dodging Deadly Showers

[babsbunny]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/26/national/main4893929.shtml

Military Racing To Inspect 90,000 Iraq Facilities For Dangerous Wiring Threats; Still 65,000 To Go


WASHINGTON, March 26, 2009

(AP) The military is racing to inspect more than 90,000 U.S.-run facilities across Iraq to reduce a deadly threat troops face far off the battlefield: electrocution or shock while showering or using appliances.

About one-third of the inspections so far have turned up major electrical problems, according to interviews and an internal military document obtained by The Associated Press. Half of the problems they found have since been fixed but about 65,000 facilities still need to be inspected, which could take the rest of this year. Senior Pentagon officials were on Capitol Hill this week for briefings on the findings.

[dflprincess]

1. And I believe I heard on Countdown last night that the company selected to fix the problem is....

KBR! And they'll get paid for fixing it!

There seems to be a real tendency in the Obama administration to blindly trust that those who created the problem are the ones who can fix it.

[barbtries]

2. so many

"facilities" - and so very many of them fucked up by kbr which still gets the contracts. really, really fucked up.