Please, repeat that ten times...then go toss your cookies. Seems that they need to read that in Baghdad and the surrounding environs very, very carefully before making application for any helpful shit from the offices of Viceroy Jerry & Co.™

When grease-stained technicians at the Baghdad South power plant needed spare parts recently, they first submitted a written request to Bechtel Corp., the engineering firm given more than $1 billion in U.S. government contracts to fix Iraq’s decrepit infrastructure.
THEN THEY WENT to the junkyard.

They scoured piles of industrial detritus for abandoned items that could be jury-rigged into the geriatric plant, such as the hydraulic pump from a bulldozer that was used to restart a broken water condenser.

“Of course we’d like new parts,” sighed Ahmed Ali Shihab, the senior operations engineer. But he said repeated appeals to Bechtel and the U.S. military had not yielded any significant new equipment. “All we have received from them are promises,” he said.
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“Restoring Iraq’s electricity is vital to our mission here,” said L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civil administrator of Iraq.
       “It’s hard to exaggerate the impact of three decades of crippling under-investment by Saddam Hussein in Iraq’s infrastructure,” Bremer said in a recent interview. “He spent his nation’s money building palaces and weapons and his army, not funding the things people need to survive.”
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... Yet the Bush administration’s initial reconstruction plan called for devoting just $230 million of a $680 million Bechtel contract to electricity system repairs. “The telltale signs were there,” said the American electrical engineer. “But either because of sheer carelessness or because the [U.S.] government didn’t want to reveal how expensive it would be, there was massive under-planning.”

It's no wonder that the rose-petal suppliers are having such a hard time keeping up with demand...they all love us! When the lights are not off.