Audit: Halliburton “loses track” of property
 Iraqi Red Crescent worker looks at deserted and devastated street in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday Nov. 26 2004. U.S. and Iraqi forces continue to fight sporadic gunbattles with rebel holdouts as they clear Fallujah of weapons. But as the battle calms, U.S. forces are reflecting on the fight, their often-unseen foes and the future of a city which lies in ruins. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) |
So it continues. Halliburton continues to lose
track of their job to rebuild Fallujah.
A third or more of the government property Halliburton Co. was paid to manage for the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq could not be located by auditors, investigative reports to Congress show.
Halliburton’s KBR subsidiary “did not effectively manage government property” and auditors could not locate hundreds of CPA items worth millions of dollars in Iraq and Kuwait this summer and fall, Inspector General Stuart W. Bowen reported to Congress in two reports.
Bowen’s findings mark the latest bad news for Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company, which is the focus of both a criminal investigation into alleged fuel price gouging and an FBI inquiry into possible favoritism from the Bush administration.
Great! Keep that in mind that our best chance to win over the Iraqi people goes
down the tubes when we fail to help them in their time of most
dire need. We’ve got to keep on top of this.
December 1st, 2004 at 11:51 am
There is no price to high for freedom. The thoughts of all the lives lost can be thought of from all the lives that will be saved. While they are taking a city that is no in ruins they are taking a city that can be rebuilit and lived in with out the worries of being shot every time a person walks out the door. Our troops are doing an awesome job and I stand beside them behind them or what ever 100%. I was there fought on those streets watched my friends die on those streets and lived to tell everyone not to stop fighting until we get what we came for. Until the land is free we are not done. I’m going back soon to help my friends that I consider family get what we started out to get, freedom.
December 1st, 2004 at 12:37 pm
Bravo.
December 1st, 2004 at 12:51 pm
I agree. The lives that have been sacraficed fighting for the freedoms I now have are priceless.
For that reason alone, I’m not willing to give up any of my essential freedoms for a little temporary safety–even if it means “possibly” stopping another WTC-type attack. After all, nothing can *absolutely guarantee* us that we will *never* be attacked again.
Billy, I commend and thank you for your service to our country. Good luck and Godspeed when you go back.