Monday

What the hell...

This is some seriously effed up stuff.

CNN via C&L

A U.S. House committee chairman has begun an investigation into the electrocutions of at least 12 service members in Iraq, including that of a Pittsburgh soldier killed in January by a jolt of electricity while showering.

Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said Wednesday he has asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to hand over documents relating to the management of electrical systems at facilities in Iraq.

Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, 24, died January 2 of cardiac arrest after being electrocuted while showering at his barracks in Baghdad.


Speechless.

In a January 21 memo responding to questions from Maseth's family, the Army's criminal investigations division said the Chinese-made pump was acquired before KBR took over maintenance of the building and did not meet U.S. safety standards.


Who gives a shit from where or when the pump was acquired? This company was given billions of dollars worth of no-bid contracts, and hence, they are saddled with the responsibility of providing safe conditions for our soldiers.

Oh, yeah. I forgot that I was talking about the Bush administration's corporate overlords - the word "responsibility" is more of an anathema to those people than the word "reality" is to Bush himself.

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