Smitty Two wrote:
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dpb wrote:

This beating up on BP is simply populist Monday-morning qb'ing for
the consumption of the press and populace.

Huh? As far as I'm concerned, they ****ed up. They should not have
been doing something that entailed risk, without a plan for dealing
with any problem that might arise. It's really just that damn simple.

And they were violating their own rules and procedures. Rubber chunks of the
blowout preventer came up the pipe, and they ignored it. They removed the mud
before sealing the well. And on and on.......