Comments on: War Contracting Gone Bad http://washingtonindependent.com/799/war-contracting-gone-bad National News in Context Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:36:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: schnick http://washingtonindependent.com/799/war-contracting-gone-bad/comment-page-1#comment-3779 schnick Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:50:29 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=799#comment-3779 Not that I think the situation is any "better," qualitatively, but I can understand a problem with procurement contracts for, say, a brand new series of stealth fighters that can pluck out the enemies eyes from 4 trillion miles above the earth's event horizon with a tweezer that consists entirely of sub-atomic particles and peanut butter.<br><br><br><br>But this was a contract for bullets. You can go to Wal Mart and buy bullets. Hell, you can go to K-mart and buy bullets. BULLETS!?!?!?!?!? What the fuck is wrong with us? Not that I think the situation is any “better,” qualitatively, but I can understand a problem with procurement contracts for, say, a brand new series of stealth fighters that can pluck out the enemies eyes from 4 trillion miles above the earth's event horizon with a tweezer that consists entirely of sub-atomic particles and peanut butter.

But this was a contract for bullets. You can go to Wal Mart and buy bullets. Hell, you can go to K-mart and buy bullets. BULLETS!?!?!?!?!? What the fuck is wrong with us?

]]> By: schnick http://washingtonindependent.com/799/war-contracting-gone-bad/comment-page-1#comment-744 schnick Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=799#comment-744 Not that I think the situation is any "better," qualitatively, but I can understand a problem with procurement contracts for, say, a brand new series of stealth fighters that can pluck out the enemies eyes from 4 trillion miles above the earth's event horizon with a tweezer that consists entirely of sub-atomic particles and peanut butter. But this was a contract for bullets. You can go to Wal Mart and buy bullets. Hell, you can go to K-mart and buy bullets. BULLETS!?!?!?!?!? What the fuck is wrong with us? Not that I think the situation is any “better,” qualitatively, but I can understand a problem with procurement contracts for, say, a brand new series of stealth fighters that can pluck out the enemies eyes from 4 trillion miles above the earth’s event horizon with a tweezer that consists entirely of sub-atomic particles and peanut butter.

But this was a contract for bullets. You can go to Wal Mart and buy bullets. Hell, you can go to K-mart and buy bullets. BULLETS!?!?!?!?!? What the fuck is wrong with us?

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