Electrical Risks at Bases in Iraq Worse Than Previously Said

the lyin' mo fo's....can they tell the truth about anything????

WASHINGTON — Shoddy electrical work by private contractors on United States military bases in Iraq is widespread and dangerous, causing more deaths and injuries from fires and shocks than the Pentagon has acknowledged, according to internal Army documents.

During just one six-month period — August 2006 through January 2007 — at least 283 electrical fires destroyed or damaged American military facilities in Iraq, including the military’s largest dining hall in the country, documents obtained by The New York Times show. Two soldiers died in an electrical fire at their base near Tikrit in 2006, the records note, while another was injured while jumping from a burning guard tower in May 2007.

And while the Pentagon has previously reported that 13 Americans have been electrocuted in Iraq, many more have been injured, some seriously, by shocks, according to the documents. A log compiled earlier this year at one building complex in Baghdad disclosed that soldiers complained of receiving electrical shocks in their living quarters on an almost daily basis.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/world/middleeast/18contractors.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

I am not really the ALL CAPS type, but freaking a?

:wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow:

that's in a SIX MONTH PERIOD

that for years.

I know the actual military can't be happy with what is going on.
They have to see the lazy contractors putting up extension cords all over the place.
My dad was a Marine and they had checks and balances.
Don't they have a voice anymore?

Way to support the troops, Mr. President! Can we take Pelosi off the table so impeachment will fit on the damn thing finally? DAMMIT these people are useless!