On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:28:21 GMT, Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

From Reuters, 2/25/05:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20050225/us_nm/arms_halliburton_dc

Halliburton Could Get $1.5 Bln More Iraq Work-Army

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -

Halliburton Co., under scrutiny for its contracts in Iraq, would
receive an extra $1.5 billion as part of the Bush administration's
additional war spending proposal for fiscal 2005, a senior U.S. Army
budget official said on Friday.

Halliburton, once led by Vice President ***** Cheney, is the largest
corporate contractor in Iraq and has drawn fire for its no-bid
contracts there, with auditors charging its Kellogg Brown and Root
unit overcharged for some work.

The Army's portion of a $81.9 billion supplemental spending package
earmarked the extra funding for KBR under its LOGCAP (Logistics Civil
Augmentation Program) contract to provide a wide range of services to
U.S. troops in Iraq, the official said.

The contract covers food and laundry services, trash collection, mail
delivery and other support services.

If approved by Congress, that would bring the total spending under
KBR's LOGCAP contract to about $6 billion in fiscal year 2005, about
the same amount spent a year earlier, said the official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity.

He declined to estimate how much the Army would spend on the LOGCAP
contract in fiscal 2006, but said the top U.S. commander in Baghdad
was putting a big emphasis on controlling costs by setting clear
standards for the services provided.

Gen. George Casey told a newspaper earlier this month that KBR had
submitted budget estimates that exceeded the Army's proposed spending
by $4 billion, adding, "someone has made assumptions that have driven
the costs through the roof."

Overall, KBR has earned $7.2 billion under a massive 2001 logistics
contract with the U.S. military and could earn more than $10 billion
under that deal.

It has separate deals with the government for reconstruction work in
Iraq.

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It's only your money, folks. If it's gonna get pissed away, might as
well give it to Tricky Dicky Chickenhawk Cheney's crooked so-called
company, right?

Harry