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	Army: KBR Committed 'Negligent Homocide'

Wisco

1-22-2009 3:25 PM

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Wisco says:

Not surprisingly, KBR had no comment.

How are those no-bids contracts working out for us? Bush argued we had to hire them because they were so damned competent.

Of course, that's Bush's definition of "competence," so this shouldn't be a huge surprise.

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