Journal Trolling4Dollars's Journal: The Bush Admin: Last Quarter Report 4
Having watched just how much the Bush administration has screwed Iraq reminds me of something very similar that happened a few years back in a local business. It wasn't reported on the news because it was pretty much unknown to anyone outside of the business. I had a friend who worked for a company that hired out to do lots of different types of computer related technical work. In general, they had a fair reputation and got all sorts of things done. Migrations, mass deployments of workstations and servers, etc. This one friend had gotten employment in this firm through a friend of his who we will call X. Even I was invited to come and work for this firm since X vaguely knew me from previous business. I declined because the position I had at the time was very stable and in the public sector.
This firm assigned X and my other friend to a transportation company that was migrating from Unix to Windows. X had connections through family and friends that had gotten him into this firm in the first place. Even though his technical skills weren't quite up to par (don't tell him that) for this project, he still got the assignment. So... I heard about the progress of this migration over the course of a few weeks. Initially things seemed to be progressing slowly. Not much work was getting done other than the movement of some hardware. Then there were other delays that were, as far as I could gather, stalling tactics in order to distract people from the fact that X had no plan for the migration at all.
I kept talking to my friend about X and found out that there was also some dirty dealings going on. Systems were being pilfered for personal gain and hardware was going home. I heard that X and a few of his friends were the beneficiaries of the missing systems. Then, one day, X didn't show up for work. It was advantageous because he was to be fired that day. The people at the firm had figured out that something wasn't right about X and were getting ready to ditch him. But X was warned ahead of time by one of his connections and already had started working at another company. Meanwhile, my friend and the few people who weren't friends of X were left to complete the migration which turned out to be a disaster in the end.
The client was left with a system that didn't work and more than likely had to contract out with someone else to clean up the mess. Meanwhile X moved on to another cushy "tech" job where he didn't do anything other than outsource all of his responsibilities at the company's expense. The only reason X hasn't faltered is that he really does have vast connections in the local business world that were established by his father and grandfather. All he has to do is coast along in pseudo tech jobs "managing" other people.
Bush is very much the same exact type of person as X and Iraq is a lot like that failed migration. I suppose that some conservatives might change their tune if there was a "quarterly report" issued about the president's performance in the handling of Iraq that was formatted in corporate style and sourced with info from outside of the US media. But then again maybe not since they don't seem to trust anything that isn't in line with their views.
Real conservatives... (Score:3, Insightful)
... don't like Bush. He's NOT conservative. Idiots like Metzler like Bush because he pretends to be conservative, but he follows the "neo-conservative" doctrine much more closely, and if there's anything cons and libs hate more than each other, it's a psychotic neocon. He appeals to people who like to see America as a "strong" marauding force kicking the world's ass because they're trogolodytic freaks who don't understand that Hitler's dead, we lost in Vietnam, and the world has moved on without them.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if Bush is a conservative, I'm the bloody queen of England.
Re:Real conservatives... (Score:2)
Re:Real conservatives... (Score:1)
So much for advocating social freedom.