"Congressional panel examines contractor drawdown in Iraq; Finds military guidance lacking" by Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post | March 30, 2010
WASHINGTON — A congressional committee yesterday questioned one of the Pentagon’s biggest defense companies and military leaders about how they plan to reduce the nearly 100,000 contractor employees in Iraq, as the United States draws down its military forces there.
I don't think they plan to do that.
See: Occupation Iraq: KBR Keeping On
They were already supposed to be gone.
“Taxpayers need assurance that contractors don’t have unnecessary staff hanging around — accidentally or by design — without work, but still drawing pay,’’ the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan said in its prepared statement.
Yup: Occupation Iraq: War Looters Still Working
Related: Occupation Iraq: The Reconstruction Rip-Off
Now underway in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon expects the number of contractor employees in Iraq — mostly foreign nationals and Iraqis — to have declined from 149,000 in January 2009 to no more than 75,000 by August 2010.
Fed 'em bad food, s***ty water, and electrocuted them in showers -- for which they were awarded $84 million in BONUSES!!!
But don't worry; Congress is on the case!
So when you going to CUT OFF the MONEY?
A recent Pentagon inspector general report found that KBR contractors were billing the government for 12 hours in doing truck maintenance, but in reality were working an average of 1.3 hours — a waste of $21 million.
That is STEALING from YOUR WALLET, bankrupt AmeriKan taxpayers!!!
The report also found that KBR could save $193 million if it drew down its workforce faster, according to an audit by the Defense Contract Audit Agency. KBR defended its practices in written responses to the auditors, saying that under the contract, it is up to the US military to decide what work it wants done and set the staffing needs.
They truly are SHAMELESS WAR PIGS!
It also said that it has put in place more cost-efficient methods for doing its work.
Officials on the wartime commission said they are concerned that the US military has “yet to make key decisions that will affect contractors’ draw down plans.’’
Because THEY ARE NOT COMING OUT!
“The government is not giving contractors adequate guidance on events, dates, and requirements for them to trim or redeploy workforces appropriately,’’ the commissioners said in the prepared statement.
Lieutenant General James Pillsbury, deputy commanding general of the US Army Materiel Command, which is helping oversee the drawdown of the logistics operations in Iraq, said the “magnitude and scope of the Iraq drawdown is unprecedented.’’He's kidding, right?
Had a huge World War some decades ago, I don't know.
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