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To: CheneyChick
Whistle-blowers told how the company charged $45 per case of soda...

That sounds very reasonable to me for the service of shipping (flying?) a case of soda half way around the world in to a war zone in the desert.

5 posted on 07/12/2006 9:09:17 AM PDT by TChris (Banning DDT wasn't about birds. It was about power.)
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To: TChris

That sounds very reasonable to me for the service of shipping (flying?) a case of soda half way around the world in to a war zone in the desert.

It probably was served cold too...................


6 posted on 07/12/2006 9:16:19 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Seeking the truth here folks.)
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I think the $45 was the cost of product, not delivery. If AAFES can sell soda at 1/3 the price using the same contracted shipping KBR should be able to.

I could start on some of the KBR waste and fraud I've seen over here where they would s-over soldiers in order to get extra $ but I'm not going to start. Let's just say I've had to sleep on floor because of KBR removing all a base's 1-yr old furniture before the 'new contract' furniture arrived. I found an Army cot but when I left after 7 weeks the much promised 'new contract' furniture hadn't arrived yet the previous, (1-yr old) contract furniture had all been haulded away. The KBR employees had their own 'new contract' furniture from the start btw.

KBR needs competition and they need new or better management. Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. are not the places to pull the sole-source contractor billing scams.

12 posted on 07/12/2006 9:37:23 AM PDT by Justa (Politically Correct is morally wrong.)
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