Halliburton Gets More Business in Iraq

[54anickel]

:wtf:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=3996701

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday Vice President Dick Cheney's former company Halliburton was allocated $222 million more last week for work in Iraq, at the same time as a Pentagon audit found the firm may have overbilled for some services there.

Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root has now clocked up $2.26 billion under its March no-bid contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild Iraq's oil sector.

Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Bob Faletti said a new task order was made for KBR last week worth up to $222 million for the "restoration of essential infrastructure."

Faletti said this work order would be paid for by money from the Development Fund for Iraq and not from $18.6 billion in new funds to rebuild Iraq appropriated by Congress.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. No wonder they were keeping Saddam on ice

[dusty64]

8. My thoughts too.

I am suspicious of EVERYTHING our regime says.

[frank frankly]

2. they literally don't know how to quit looting

people know Halliburton by name now

big mistake

[pinto]

3. how does Haliburton spell Iraq? R, A, P, E n/t

[gmoney]

4. Thinking of buying some Halliburton stock...

Since I am the "kiss of death" when I buy stock, if I buy a few shares, they'll be bankrupt by New Year's Day... but then again, I'd have to buy Halliburton stock.

Such a quandry...

[PartyPooper]

5. Just "hold your nose" and think positively...

after all, you may be saving humanity.

Just a thought.

:-)

[Genetic]

6. Halibut

Who in the Pentagon found the "overbilling"?

I get overbilled for beer at most bars. Send me this pentagon official!

[Wink]

7. He's being suicided right now.

Either that or he's joined Cheney in an "undisclosed location".

[newyawker99]

11. Hi Genetic!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[pippin]

9. and they are already screwing the troops

by serving bad food!! :mad:

see thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=919370

[bobthedrummer]

10. Private Military Company/PMC link

Spookwar is bid upon too it's all the company does-federalized private employee military companies with higher tech than the army.
http://www.icij.org/dtaweb/icij_bow.asp?Section=Chapter&ChapNum=2

[bobthedrummer]

12. War profiteering is old hat to the BFEE

http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=6008

http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=6328

Look at the fascist corporate ideology since WWII, remember Prescott.
http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/waryearsp5.html

[hippywife]

13. The UK is all over it

Here's a link from the Evening Standard from yesterday:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/business/articles/timid71939?version=1