Republicon FAIL # 666,666,666: A monument to waste

[SpiralHawk]

Nothing says FAIL quite like 'republicon conservative'


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_vacant_prison

Report: Empty prison in Iraq a $40M 'failure'

By BRIAN MURPHY and PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writers Mon Jul 28, 6:26 AM ET

BAGHDAD - In the flatlands north of Baghdad sits a prison with no prisoners. It holds something else: a chronicle of U.S. government waste, misguided planning and construction shortcuts costing $40 million and stretching back to the American overseers who replaced Saddam Hussein.

"It's a bit of a monument in the desert right now because it's not going to be used as a prison," said Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, whose office plans to release a report Monday detailing the litany of problems at the vacant detention center in Khan Bani Saad.

The pages also add another narrative to the wider probes into the billions lost so far on scrubbed or substandard projects in Iraq and one of the main contractors accused of failing to deliver, the Parsons construction group of Pasadena, Calif.

"This is $40 million invested in a project with very little return," Bowen told The Associated Press in Washington. "A couple of buildings are useful. Other than that, it's a failure."

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[LiberalEsto]

1. There's plenty of 'return'

"This is $40 million invested in a project with very little return," Bowen told The Associated Press in Washington.


The defense contractors who built it collected their loot, didn't they?

[SpiralHawk]

2. Ooops, forgot about the republicon 'criminal genius' of Shock & Awe

Republicons create the disaster, then pocket Massive Profit from it in some perverse, deviant way.

Thanks for the reminder. This is only a republicon FAIL on the level of stated intent and usefulness. In terms of corrupt profit, republicon cronies are laughing all the way to the bank.