[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16787]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             WAR PROFITEERS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, I bring you news from Iraq and the war 
profiteers that make money off this war.
  According to the Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction and as 
reported by the Washington Post, a California contractor ``was paid 
$142 million to build prisons, fire and police stations that were never 
built or finished.''
  The Inspector General states, ``Millions of dollars in waste are 
associated with incomplete, terminated and abandoned projects.''
  The biggest fiasco was an incomplete prison that was so poorly 
constructed that the floors are collapsing. This facility is totally 
useless to the United States and Iraqi governments.
  Mr. Speaker, it seems to me this is yet another example of 
incompetence, waste, and possible fraud against America.
  If crimes have been committed, the Justice Department needs to 
prosecute anyone that steals money from America during this time of 
war, because the long arm of American law even reaches crooked 
contractors in Iraq.
  And where shall we send these people? To the well-built Guantanamo 
Bay Prison where we house war criminals.
  And that's just the way it is.

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