"Contractors in Afghanistan are making big money for bad work."

William Fisher: Spinning America's Forgotten War
Friday, 5 May 2006, 12:21 pm


"Contractors in Afghanistan are making big money for bad work."

This is the conclusion reached in a new report from CorpWatch written by an Afghan-American journalist who returned to her native country to examine the progress of reconstruction.

"The Bush Administration touts the reconstruction effort in Afghanistan as a success story," the report says, but claims that reconstruction has been "bungled" by "many of the same politically connected corporations which are doing similar work in Iraq", receiving "massive open-ended contracts" without competitive bidding or with limited competition.

"These companies are pocketing millions, and leaving behind a people increasingly frustrated and angry with the results," the report says. Foreign contractors "make as much as $1,000 a day, while the Afghans they employ make $5 per day," the report charges.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0605/S00094.htm

And it is at OUR expense! Or, more to the point, at the expense of my niece and nephews and their children--and possibly their children's children.

NO MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!