Date: 12 July 2006 23:48:39 BDT

To: warprofits@lists.corpwatch.org

The controversial multibillion-dollar deal with oil services giant Halliburton to provide logistical support to U.S. troops in Iraq has been canceled.

The Pentagon should be congratulated for canceling the contract for Halliburton’s military logistics contract in Iraq and putting it up for open bid. Halliburton has only itself to blame for shoddy managment, over-charging and thumbing its nose at military investigators: for example torching brand-new $85,000 Mercedes trucks and charging $100 for a bag of laundry.

However, at the end of the day, the U.S. taxpayer has already been cheated out of hundreds of millions of dollars in unsupported costs and overcharges that the military auditors have disputed, but that the Pentagon has paid anyway. If the administration’s sudden change of heart is really about fiscal responsibility, it should demand that money back.

Read CorpWatch comment:

Iraq After Halliburton
Pratap Chatterjee
July 12th, 2006
www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13874

Read Washington Post news article:

IRAQ: Army to End Expansive, Exclusive Halliburton Deal
www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13870

Read our three alternative annual reports on Halliburton, CorpWatch to learn the real legacy of the company’s incompetence and corruption.

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