halliburton makes more money off of Iraq

Any wonder why they're not in a hurry to end the war there?

Halliburton Gets More Iraq Work

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has hired Halliburton Co. for nearly $5 billion in new work in Iraq under a logistics contract that has so far earned the Texas firm $9.1 billion, the Army said Wednesday.
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The new deal, worth $4.97 billion over the next year, was not made public when it was signed because the Army did not consider it necessary, she said. "We did not announce this task order as this is really not something we ever really thought about doing," Theis said.

Halliburton, run by Vice President Dick Cheney from 1995 to 2000, has been under scrutiny for its contracts in Iraq, and several U.S. government agencies are looking into whether it overcharged for some work. In March, a former KBR employee and a Kuwaiti citizen were indicted on charges of defrauding the U.S. government of more than $3.5 million by inflating the cost of fuel tankers.

A top U.S. Army procurement official said last week that Halliburton's deals in Iraq were the worst example of contract abuse she had seen, a claim KBR rejected as "political rhetoric."

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So, the army never thought about telling the public that the company that Cheney used to run, that is under investigation for contract abuse, that could be a reason why the administration would want to continue the war, received another $5 BILLION contract?!?!? F'king assholes!
(first seen at Americablog)