stanhootzz's Blog

I am happy to report that business as usual under the Bush administration is alive and well.

What ever hppened to accountability in procurment procedures in the Department of defense?????

Witness ths story on an American contractor.

"40 Years old: Some of the ammunition is obsolete, Nato says."

This story reported By: C.J. Chivers

The New York Times

"Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on american logistics and military support in the war against al-Quida and he Taliban.

But to arm the Afghan forces that it hopes will lead this fight, the U.S. military has relied since early last year on a fledgling company led by a 22 year-old man

With the award last January of a federal contract worth nearly $300 million, the company, AEY Inc., which operates out of an unmarked office in Miami Beach, Fla., became the MAIN SUPPLIER of munitions to the Afghan Army and police forces. Since the company has supplied ammunition that is more than 40 years old and is in decomposing packaging, according to an examination of the munitions by The New York Times and interviews with U.S. and Afghan officials. Much of the ammo comes from the aging stockpiles of the old Communist bloc, including stockpiles that the state department and NATO have determined to be unreliable and obsolete, and have spent MILLIONS of dollars to have destroyed.

In buying arms, the contractor has worked thru middlemen and a shell company on a U.S. list of entities suspected of illegal arms trafficking.

Moreover, TENS OF MILLIONS OF the rifle and machine-gun cartridges were manufactured in CHINA, making their procuement a possible violation of U.S. law. The company's president, Ephraim Diveroli, was also secretly recorded in a conversation that suggested corruption in his company's purchase of more than 100 million aging rounds in Albania, according tothe audio files of the conversation.

This week AFTER REPEATED INQUIRIES ABOUT AEY's PERFORMANCE, the Army suspended the company from future federal contracting."

Does this sound anything like what this Bush administration has been about all along; rife with corruption and mismanagement, that would make President Grant Blush in his grave with envy (the Grant administration as recorded in history "was" the most corrupt administration to come along until this present administration of George Bush Jn.).

I wonder just how much this 22 yer kid made off with in tax-payers dollars???? Will he be prosecuted???? Probably not.

I liken this administration to the saying "When ya lay down with dogs, yer liable ta git up with fleas!"

I thank all you folks out there who voted these fellas into office. Maybe we can just do away with term limits and voting and have the

BURNING BUSH IN OFFICE FER LIFE!!!!

Yeah Buddy!