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Surprised that some big infrastructure company like Halli or Bechtel didn't see an opportunity to scheme some business from this.
by jksmith 11y ago
Surprised that some big infrastructure company like Halli or Bechtel didn't see an opportunity to scheme some business from this.
- raisedbyninjas 11y agoRebuilding Mosul is more lucrative that maintenance on Mosul dam?
- jksmith 11y agoIndeed! Good thinking. Rebuild dam and city. Funded by US loans of course.
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- samstave 11y agoThat's the business model of the IMF. Would you prefer to be paved in gold or bombs?
- noonespecial 11y agoFun fact: The gold is almost certainly cheaper in the long run.
- dopamean 11y agoWith the added benefit of being a "hero" when they go in to rebuild in such a dangerous area.
- WalterSear 11y agoAnd 'hero' pay, no doubt.
- kafkaesq 11y agoLook at the upside - when it blows they can always rent bulldozers to bury all the bodies.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoSome of those guys were severely burned by the Iraqi Adventure. SFAIK, Halli divested of Brown-Root. Big Engineering like that might as well be politics. And this makes me think of the St. Francis Dam. "It's Chinatown, Jake."
- kough 11y agoI watched that movie while coming down (ok, failing to come down) from my first acid trip. Not the right choice. Great movie though.
- samstave 11y agoThat was a funny and unexpected comment... What movie are you talking about?
- turkishrevenge 11y agoI'm guessing "Chinatown"
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoYou are correct, sir.
- samstave 11y agoI'm positive they likely have. Don't forget the fact that Feinstein's husband was head of a doc at Bechtel Corp and she was on the Military construction Appropriations committee, they funneled a lot of money through that incestuous relationship. She left that committee in 2008, which was plenty of time for graft.