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To: sylvester80 who wrote (204538)	9/28/2006 8:46:35 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Coalition Provisional Authority hired Parsons in 2004 to transform the Baghdad Police College, a ramshackle collection of 1930s buildings, into a modern facility whose training capacity would expand from 1,500 recruits to at least 4,000. The contract called for the firm to remake the campus by building, among other things, eight three-story student barracks, classroom buildings and a central laundry facility. Sounds to me like they didn't strip out the old plumbing and re-install new pipes... We had some of our guys living in an Iraqi Ba'th party "vacation" home and their plumbing was notoriously unreliable and constantly having to be "snaked" because the pipe circumferences were too small. Sounds like this contractor DESERVES to be investigated, and if unable to provide a convincing reason why they failed to provide a sanitary and sound finished product, fined and any final payments withheld until the facility passes inspection. Of course, it's probably on a "cost-plus" basis, which means the Pentagon is primarily responsible for the failure to abide by specifications (and there should, at least, be a spec sheet for the project). But Sly.. don't try and present this as evidence that Marxism is a better form of system.. We have decades worth of evidence related to the incompetence of Marxist structural projects.. Hawk