Army Allows Halliburton to Supply Iraq Fuel Without Giving Price Data

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58681-2004Jan6.html

The Army has allowed Halliburton to increase the supplies of fuel delivered to Iraq without giving the usual data to justify its cost, a spokesman said Tuesday.

But the decision does mean that Halliburton subsidiary KBR does not have to provide price figures for the increased flow of gasoline and kerosene it buys in Kuwait and delivers to Iraqi civilian markets, Adkins said. He said Halliburton's Kuwaiti supplier, the Altanmia Marketing Co., refused to provide the price data required under U.S. contracting regulations.

[bobthedrummer]

1. WTF?

:wtf:

[Resistance]

21. unbelievable

how long can American citizens put up with this?

[cthrumatrix]

2. you can't make this stuff up......this has to be wrong!

[aquart]

3. Well, that takes care of the overcharge accusations.

If you don't have the figures, you can't accuse them.

Well done! And supremely, breathtakingly, corrupt.

[grannylib]

4. WTF indeed...what is this bull??

:wtf:

[goforit]

5. Hello!!!.........Robbery in pure day light!!!

George Bush's repugs applaud!!!

May they (all GOPrs)all be damned!!!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. Damn, where can I get in line for this gravy train?

What a sick joke.

[burythehatchet]

7. I'm afraid you don't meet the DNA qualifications

at least that's my guess. Neither do I

[arcane1]

8. I am sadly not surprised... these bastards have NO SHAME

:grr:

meanwhile, veteran's benefits are cut, the troops in the field get rotten food, and tortured Gulf War POW's get not one fucking penny in compensation...

[0007]

9. WTF, I thought Halliburton was no longer supplying or delivering gas?

Silly me, I believe everything I read! Of course Halliburton doesn't have to give a price data to the Army! I must be off my feed, what's wrong with me? This is the good 'O Boys club.

[farmbo]

10. Problem solved: no more pesky scandals over $2.75/gal gas...

...let's just slap a lid on everything... The "press" is too busy drumming up Dean scandals to even report on it.

[zbdent]

11. To hit them over the head with perspective, tell them that this is like

a DUer saying that Janet Reno said there's no need to investigate Whitewater.

[DemoTex]

12. The weird sisters said it best:

Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Shakespeare, Macbeth, Scene I

What is, seems. What seems, is.

[DakotaDemocrat]

13. What the...

Nothing surprises anymore. About this time next year, if * gets back in the White House, he is going to do his Robin Hood

...no more income tax - just sales tax on generic food...15%
...any person making more than $200,000, reclaim any property in the inner city as your own!
...any corporation giving money to the Jeb Bush Presidential Exploratory Committee, tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts...
...Don't even think about an abortion - 15 to 20 years for thoughts.


Geeesh - why do people want to vote for this man...

[zbdent]

14. Good point - expecting a bill for a 12 month waiting period for

an abortion, with a background check.

Guns free with a $10 purchase at the Kwik-E-Mart.

[ignatius]

15. I just recently saw Bowling for Columbine. I frickin' could not

believe that a bank gave away free shotguns for opening a certain type of bank account,even more alarming was the casual and cavalier attitude about keeping 500 of those guns in the bank vault!!

The world has gone topsy-turvy.

[salin]

16. As bush said - to his corporate funders...

"Its YOUR money" - from our gouged pockets to Haliburton's coifers and Cheney's retirement bank account (I believe he still retains - though in a "blind account" some retirement benefits from Haliburton - but I could be wrong.)

[ramapo]

17. About $38 Mil worth

That was the Cheney retirement package when he left to run for VP. Funny how it never raised much notice. A rather intimate relationship wasn't it.

[pinto]

18. Altanmia Marketing Corp., contract, "political pressure",

interesting background info on possible pressure from US Embassy to choose Altanmia as sole source contract for Kuwaiti gasoline...

http://www.iraqgroup.net/news_press/december_2003/english/wsj_16_dec_03.doc

[kalian]

19. Shameful...but what else did you folks expect....

from these corporate fascist goons.

[schultzee]

20. How can anyone in their right mind not see the corruption?

[proud patriot]

22. OUTRAGED !

:grr: