Monday, February 27, 2006

No Crony Left Behind

What's a few billion dollars between friends? Especially when it's an investment in the future--your future, that is, as in future career as a well-paid executive with a posh sinecure at KBR or Halliburton once you retire from This Man's Army. Fucking bastards.

Army to Pay Halliburton Unit Most Costs Disputed by Audit - New York Times

The Army has decided to reimburse a Halliburton subsidiary for nearly all of its disputed costs on a $2.41 billion no-bid contract to deliver fuel and repair oil equipment in Iraq, even though the Pentagon's own auditors had identified more than $250 million in charges as potentially excessive or unjustified.
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