"Report Alleges Halliburton Overcharges"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, charged the government $2.68 per gallon to import gasoline from Kuwait to Iraq while a U.S. government agency did the same job for $1.57 a gallon, a congressional Democratic report said Wednesday.

Halliburton's oil deliveries cost taxpayers an extra $166.5 million, when the company's per-gallon price is compared with the government agency's price, the report said.

The report by the House Government Reform Committee's Democratic staff was prepared for Reps. Henry Waxman of California and John Dingell of Michigan, two of the leading Democratic critics of the company Cheney led before running for vice president.

The presidential campaign of John Kerry also has made Halliburton's contracts in Iraq and elsewhere a campaign issue, saying the Bush administration has shown favoritism in giving the firm non-competitive contracts.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040721/D83VDU300.html

[lovedems]

1. How many reports and investigations have to come out before the

damn sheeple of this country come to terms with the fact that Halliburton is raping the taxpayer?

Damn...gas, laundry, meals, you name it. ANY service they touch they grossly overcharge for that service.

This is getting effin' ridiculous!

[fdr_hst_fan]

2. C'mon-is this

REALLY a surprise?

:eyes: :puke:

[lovedems]

3. No! What surprises me is the total lack of inaction where Halliburton is

concerned!

I know we are suffering through a republican controlled congress, but democrats should start demanding that Halliburton be removed from any and all contract work until these investigations are complete. War profiteering is a crime and I am so tired of one report after another coming to light while they continue to profit while people die.

Something needs to be done about this!

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Instead we get, "but but, Clinton did it too!"