Chickening Out in Iraq: How Your Tax Dollars Financed “Reconstruction” Madness in the Middle East

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/03

Very few people outside the agricultural world know that if the rooster in a flock dies the hens will continue to produce fertile eggs for up to four weeks because “sperm nests,” located in the ovary ducts of hens, collect and store sperm as a survival mechanism to ensure fertile eggs even after the male is gone. I had to know this as part of my role in the reconstruction of Iraq.

Like learning that Baghdad produced 8,000 tons of trash every day, who could have imagined when we invaded Iraq that such information would be important to the Global War on Terror? If I were to meet George W., I would tell him this by way of suggesting that he did not know what he was getting the country into.

I would also invite the former president along to visit a chicken-processing plant built with your tax dollars and overseen by my ePRT (embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team). We really bought into the chicken idea and spent like drunken sailors on shore leave to prove it. In this case, the price was $2.58 million for the facility.

The first indication this was all chicken shit was the smell as we arrived at the plant with a group of Embassy friends on a field trip. The odor that greeted us when we walked into what should have been the chicken-killing fields of Iraq was fresh paint. There was no evidence of chicken killing as we walked past a line of refrigerated coolers.

More at the link --

[Lasher]

1. A funny story, but sad too.

We've pissed away money by the boatloads in Iraq, and we continue to do so. But that's OK, it's helping us reach the objective and the objective is victory. We'll need to cut Medicare and Social Security to compensate. And Medicaid too. It's a small price to pay for freedom.

[xchrom]

2. Recommend

[pansypoo53219]

3. follow the MONEY.

WHO profited from this chicken shit.

[leftstreet]

4. K&R

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R