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By: Sadly, No! » Sounds Like a Strategy Toward Freedom

Sadly, No! » Sounds Like a Strategy Toward Freedom — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:54:39 +0000

[...] 1.) Sleazy black marketers: unlike the bums running the current Iraqi government, these guys actually know how to deliver goods and services to the people. Sure, putting them in charge of public works would likely result in large-scale corruption and a huge inflation of government expenses, but at least shit would get done. And really, I doubt they could do anything as bad as spending $75 million to build a police academy that rains poo and pee all over its cadets. [...]

By: Random John reloaded » Good news in Iraq

Random John reloaded » Good news in Iraq — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:55:27 +0000

[...] They’re building a $75 million police academy in Iraq. [...]

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:14:51 +0000

Inside the inspector generalâ€™s office in Baghdad on a recent blistering afternoon, several federal investigators expressed amazement that such construction blunders could be concentrated in one project. Even in Iraq, they said, failure on this magnitude is unusual. Let me repeat that last bit: Even in Iraq, they said, failure on this magnitude is unusual. Federal inspectors -- U.S. government employees, on the ground in Iraq, familiar with the way the Iraqi reconstruction is going -- not only "expressed amazement" at how fucked up the police academy is, they came right out and admitted that Iraq in general is completely fucked up. "Even in a place as completely fucked up as Iraq" the police academy stands out as a shining beacon of fucked-upitude. Interestingly, the Baghdad Police College project does not appear on the Parsons Corp. "Project of the Month" list, though two other projects (Taji Military Base Renovation (September 2004) and Modernize Ibn Al Baladi Maternity and Children's Hospital (December 2004) did make the list.

By: g

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:22:18 +0000

Paging Bernie Kerik. Mr. Bernie Kerik, please.

By: mdhatter

mdhatter — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:57:12 +0000

Yeah, it’s almost as if the locals who built it secretly wanted to see the US to fail and just go home.

By: Marq

Marq — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:05:23 +0000

Your wish is my command, and evil wins, 65-34. I am so fucking proud , as the decent nations of the world can now look down on us openly, and our analogues are the very people we've sworn to destroy, like Iran. Fuck fuckity fuck.

By: Robert Green

Robert Green — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:58:42 +0000

recruting page, Heritage Foundation website, circa late 2003:

Opportunity in Iraqi reconstruction: rebuild Police Academy!

Required experience: worked on your right wing college newspaper, outed a gay person on campus, related to famous neo-conservative, believe everything you are told.

Don’t be: over 25, gay, to the left of the DLC, a contractor of any sort, someone who has ever built anything (yes, that includes erector sets), someone who understands plumbing (while this may seem odd, all will become clear after you speak with mr. paul bremer about some specifics of the project), an arabic speaker. and it goes without saying: iraqis of any stripe, whether ex-pats or natives, need not apply.

Please send all resumes to all 60 grit sandpaper snatches’ bitch, or learn more at http://www.wearegoingtofuckthisthinguprealbad.com

By: mmm...lemonheads

mmm...lemonheads — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:37:26 +0000

Even Steve Guttenberg could have done a better job with this venture. Christ on a cracker, WTF is going on with our money, our people and our principles? Pioneers with no experience in anything dictating the future of an entire f’ing country, and other than the Green Zone the country’s in f’ing anarchy. Is there a press entity ANYWHERE with the balls and cache to expose this complete and utter bullshit? Yes, I’m shrill tonight, because the fate of an entire nation, which includes several disparate tribes of peoples hangs in the balance, and hardly anyone is letting us know what the goddamn hell is going on. I want to be snarky but I just can’t at the moment. This has gone beyond anything I nor anyone here can parody, if only because people are dying because of INCOMPETENCE. People die every day for principle, for political expedience, for the sake of pure evil taking it’s place in society. But at this point I’d take evil over incompetence; at least there’s a clearly defined motive besides stupidity, ’cause that’s the biggest evil of all.

By: unrelatedwaffle

unrelatedwaffle — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:32:31 +0000

What makes this even sadder is that you replace “Iraqi Police Academy building” with “elementary school in East St. Louis” and no one can tell the difference.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:23:58 +0000

I’ve always said we should be keeping a closer eye on Steve Guttenberg.

Where is he now? NO ONE KNOWS.

By: Zython

Zython — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:48:32 +0000

Even in Iraq, they said, failure on this magnitude is unusual. When asked how the problems at the police college compared with other projects they had inspected, the answers came swiftly.

Can you say “embezzlement”?

By: K. Ron Silkwood

K. Ron Silkwood — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:51:52 +0000

They’ve got running water and a sewage sysem. What’s the beef?

By: Notorious P.A.T.

Notorious P.A.T. — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:26:21 +0000

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0807571/bio

Bubba Smith: Officer Moses Hightower

Graduated from Michigan State University in 1966.

Three-time NCAA All-American at Michigan State.

Member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

Played in the 10-10 tie that gave Notre Dame the national championship in 1966 and is considered one of the greatest college football games.

Was selected by the Baltimore Colts as the No. 1 pick in the National Football Leagues’s 1967 college draft.

Played defensive end/defensive tackle for the National Football League’s Baltimore Colts (1967-1971), Oakland Raiders (1973-1974), and Houston Oilers (1975-1976)

By: Dick Durata

Dick Durata — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:17:04 +0000

All you nay-sayers ignore the fact that the building has a beautiful paint job.

By: John Owens

John Owens — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:01:30 +0000

The Baghdad Police College,... was so poorly constructed that feces and urine rained from the ceilings in student barracks.

Damn those insurgents and their asymmetric warfare! Will they stop at nothing? I.F. Thunder, Esq.: Don't you mean "I.T. Thunder"?

By: Nikki

Nikki — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:54:10 +0000

I want to know if someone thought it would keep working.
â€œWell mam, right HEREâ€™S your problemâ€?.

This was my thought exactly! You beat me to it, King Spirula.

By: shargash

shargash — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:36:54 +0000

Damn that liberal media for only reporting the negatives about Iraq.

You really couldn’t make this shit up. No one would believe half of it.

By: King Spirula

King Spirula — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:28:35 +0000

“A light fixture in one room stopped working because it was filled with urine and fecal matter.”

I want to know if someone thought it would keep working.
“Well mam, right HERE’S your problem”.

By: mikey

mikey — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:12:36 +0000

Damn, I knew that serving in the Iraqi National Police Force was a shitty deal, but really, I had no idea how shitty…

mikey

By: Uncle Fister

Uncle Fister — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:39:32 +0000

Look, the real question is, why are they making another Police Academy movie? (Check Michael Winslow’s IMDB page.) Truly, that’s a greater injustice and crime against humanity than anything going on in Iraq.