I am starting to feel like the news is playing a joke on me; every day, I wake up and think,'What are they gonna find KBR's done today?' And they never disappoint.

The mother of Sergeant Ryan Maseth has filed a lawsuit against the private contractor alleging that faulty wiring and negligent inspection of said wiring led to the death of her son by electrocution. Further probing into the issue found that not only had KBR reported wiring problems before the death of Sgt. Maseth and never did anything about it, but that at least twelve other soldiers died under similar conditions.

From Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morell's joking dismissal of earlier reports that KBR supplied contaminated water to the troops, to the fact that every day a new story breaks about another one of KBR's schemes to capitalize as much as possible from the war, it is clear that the contracting firm is confident in its ability to get away with corrosive and negligent behavior without any form of accountability coming from the Pentagon.

And on top of it all, the Senate Appropriations Committee found that such lack of government oversight into how the funding and resources for the war is spent has caused perhaps hundreds of thousands of weapons to be funneled to insurgent militias. KBR has made it clear that the lives of our troops and security for the American people is worth nothing compared to the billions of dollars they have reaped from their contracts.

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