NEWS: Idiot Slaves Fuck Up Our Embassy

POLITICS: Idiot Slaves Fuck Up Our Embassy

Bringing Democracy to Iraq has been a difficult task. As much as we want the country to follow in our footsteps, it seems it may never happen. At the very least, we can lead by example and show the Iraqis what made America so successful during our early years: Slavery. And what better time and place to introduce the glory of slavery than during the construction of the US Embassy in Baghdad?

Yesterday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held hearings on the waste, fraud and abuse that occurred during construction of our new, $600 million, kick-ass Embassy.

It just warms the heart to hear that human beings were...

First Kuwaiti is a contracting firm that was handed the job because no American company “could meet the terms.” We can only assume the “terms” meant they needed to kidnap slaves. Most of the slaves were from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Sierra Leone, which means they could have easily called mom or dad and asked for money for a ticket home. But they didn’t because they were lazy – and First Kuwaiti had taken their passports.

At least they were treated well when they got there.

Only the weak need shoes. I think Jesus said that.

The right-wing excuse machine will surely say that it is not the United States' fault because it was a contracted, foreign company that built our Embassy with slaves. I think the appropriate response to that is, “Eat my balls.” It was the State Department’s job to oversee the construction of the US Embassy – because it’s a fucking US Embassy. They actually have a division that oversees the construction of Embassies, called the State Department's Overseas Buildings Operations. If you don’t think we watch the construction of an Embassy closely, you are an idiot.

The best thing about slaves is that they do quality work. We only know about one building on the compound – and it’s a useless pile of shit.

In May, the new $22 million dollar Embassy guard base opened. Workers quickly realized the kitchen was a disaster. Appliances did not work, staff were receiving electrical shocks and then the wiring actually began to melt. It was estimated that the electrical problems would take two weeks to fix, but in that time it became apparent the base was a disaster.

The wiring in the dining hall was in such bad shape that officials decided to send all the guards back to their old base. They were concerned that the same wiring was prevalent throughout the guard base and they didn’t want the guards to die in a fire.

Every generator on the base developed leaks.

The residential trailers filled with formaldehyde fumes. Thankfully, there was a simple solution.

Strangely, the open the windows/charcoal fix did not work and the trailers continued to reek of toxic fumes. Since this is the only building on the $600 million dollar Embassy that we know about, the assumption is that the problems exist throughout the compound.

No shit. Who would have thought that no bid contracts and slave labor would lead to poor quality?

America. Stalling human progress since for over 20+ years.

Break them down then make them our beotches that is the new American way

Thank GOD we have a Born Again Christian as President to keep things like this from happening in Iraq. Oh wait never mind.

What a perfect nightmare.

Nice post, FTR.

Hey...wait a minute...I thought we were liberators...I thought we were turning over leadership of Iraq to, well, the Iraqi people. Why would we need the largest US embassy in the entire world (10 times over) in a country that we are not occupying? And why would the US need slave labor from other countries? We've never done that before or anything in the 19th century, or before that. Hmm. Why wouldn't the Iraqis LOVE to have jobs building a permanent panopticon-like fortress where their American corporatist overlords could watch over them? Ingrates. Maybe we're still looking for those WMD's or something...Fox News says they may STILL find them and they are fair and balanced.

I just don't get it...unless, of course, the whole war is A TOTAL FARCE. A RUSE. But Jesuschief George would never do that, so I just don't get it...wonder what the Democratic "opposition" in congress will not do next? At least we can blame the slaves, I mean kidnapped "immigrants" looking for opportunity to serve empire.



We're more and more like Bizarro world every day...

You know, the Congress could do this...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/27/2809/

the "terms" were probably unrealistically cheap. "Unrealistically cheap" is a brain disease that's going around in Corporate America

If Muslims didn't hate us for our freedom, we wouldn't have to use slave labor to build our massive symbols of occupation.

The same thing happens is happening in New Orleans, by the way. Yay privatization and outsourcing!

Down to the trailers.

If this isn't symbolic of the progress we've made in Iraq as a whole, I don't know what is.

Everyone (read: the President and his administration [read: entourage]) keeps touting our progress in Iraq as amazing, world changing, and on track. And it might look that way, to the casual, uninformed onlooker. But as soon as we have to actually get something done, we move in and it all falls apart. And there are a lot of people who think the project was doomed and misguided in the first place.

By the way, building a $600 million embassy in a country that we just wanted to fix and then get out of is sending a mixed signal, don't you think?

Slave labor = low cost = less taxes = happy people
QED
Slave labor = happy people
So STFU and be happy [s]slaves[/s] people

It's probably also all the same people who do all the construction in Dubai too. The use of slave labor has been a sticky issue for them for a while.

http://hrw.org/reports/2006/uae1106/

And from what I understand, the UAE cares even less about the use of slave labor than we do.

The relationship between First Kuwait and Haliiburton is an interesting one, especially when you consider the fact that Halliburton is now locating its international headquarters in Dubai. First Kuwait's entire busines is built around its role as a subcontractor for Halliburton. I wouldn't bat an eyelash of surprise if it came out that Halliburton is getting its palm greased by First Kuwait over this contract. Also a great way for a U.S. Corp. to use slave labor through a back channel sub-contractor. Any whining about the contract going to a foreign company is probably just a diversion. It smells bad because it is bad. Makes me wanna puke.

I wonder if the manacles pictured have a made in the USA stamp?

Slave labor=clearly higher status of paid contractors=more money in their pockets versus those dirty brown people's filthy paws=a healthier domestic economy for a happier and safer america?

I was going to link human trafficking and dog fighting into there somewhere but couldn't find the proper wikipedia articles.

So glad to see tyranny hard at work keeping the world safe for American Supeiority. I mean democracy...I totally said democracy.

I'm just going to say it.


Best Thread title ever



Vote Rollins 08

Though, interestingly enough, these workers would rather be in Dubai than Baghdad.

You know things are pretty bad if slave laborers would rather slave for the UAE than for the U.S.A.

Kick-Ass Embassy.......... Fuck Ya!

This made me actually laugh out loud.

It's not the slaves, but the shitty quality of work that bothers me--contractors...

Yes! I love it when my tax dollars get wasted!

Wait.... I don't pay taxes...

Why don't I pay taxes?

Oh yeah, I'm in Iraq.

But didn't this happen in Iraq?

But that means... I could... this very room could.... oh, no. *gasp*

Don't breathe.Don't breathe.Don't breathe.Don't breathe.

boobs?

It's truly embarrassing.

Sometimes I just wish that America had made massive social, medical, technological, and scientific advancements in the past 20+ years