Some changer order! With a change order that big, the lender would have shut the project down, thrown the general off the site, and tried desperately to figure out what happened.
Happens all the time. Shutting it down depends how important it is, relative cost impact, schedule, etc, etc. Throwing the general off site depends on how critical the schedule is and the cost friction of getting a new general up to speed, among other things.
Of course, there are limits to the analogy. But the usual solution will probably apply in this case as well. We'll either reduce the scope and/or negotiate a more reasonable figure with Turkey, or we'll dictate a new figure and say 'deal with it'. The advantage of the latter in this case is that we don't have to be worried about getting sued by Turkey afterwards. <g>
As for impeaching Bush, and in keeping with the analogy, it has always amazed me that the average Joe (er, make that Ted ;-) tends to blame the "Owner" for cost overruns, rather than understanding that there really are unanticipatable (is that a word?) things that can crop up in projects sometimes, and contractors charge exhorbitantly when they happen.
And, of course, sometimes it is the engineer's fault due to bad designing, but we won't talk about that. <g>
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