US senators say Halliburton to lose Iraq gasoline business

[kayell]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031105/pl_afp/us_iraq_oil_halliburton_031105214656

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Army may replace Halliburton as the agent for future gasoline imports into Iraq (news - web sites) following accusations of overcharging, two senior Democratic lawmakers said.


The Army Corps of Engineers was considering switching the business to the Pentagon (news - web sites)'s Defense Energy Support Center, said two Democrats in the House of Representatives, Henry Waxman and John Dingell.


"Given the extraordinarily high prices that Halliburton has been charging to import gasoline, this action could save American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars," they wrote in a letter to the Army Corps.


The Army Corps was not immediately available to comment.

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[DebJ]

1. yeh sure and half the money to rebuild Iraq will be a loan

[brainshrub]

2. How much you wanna bet that Halliburton is going to keep those contracts?

[robbob]

3. This will be a good story to follow.

I'm sure someone high up will call up the Army and tell them to cool it. Poor Halliburton HAS to find a way to pay Dickie boy his 1$/year "deferred severence pay".

[David Zephyr]

4. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Charged Them With "War Profiteering"

So where are the apologies from the Democrats who targeted her?

[Gin]

5. KBR or another subsidiary will pick up the contract...they WILL NOT

lose any of the ill gotten gains without a major fight.

[Plaid Adder]

6. I would LOVE to see this.

To me, it is as important to get Halliburton the hell out of Iraq as it is to get Bush out of the White House. I do not want those profiteering @#$!s to get another @#$! dime of taxpayer money.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[denverbill]

7. But, but, but...privatization was supposed to SAVE money!?!?

Privatization. What a fucking rip-off. The only thing it does is give tax dollars to private corporations and cost taxpayer more money.

Does anyone really believe that the US Army couldn't provide police trainers to Iraq for less than $400,000 per trainer?

[hippiechick]

8. Why is our Army reduced to pumping gas ??

THAT's the problem I have with this whole story ....



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