Classy move, ripping off a country struggling to recover from the US invasion. The greed factor with Cheney-Halliburton is revolting not to mention absolutely stupid considering the administration is supposed to be building a long term friend in the region. The UN report blasts KBR (Halliburton) and is asking them to repay up to $208M to the Iraqi government. This is what happens when government allows private enterprise to mix with political policy. Surely this causes ill will, not to mention fueling anti-Americanism by the Iraqi people. As if the US does not have enough problems in Iraq without this new mess.
The work was paid for with Iraqi oil proceeds, but the board said it was either carried out at inflated prices or done poorly.So does this mean that the neocons in the Senate are going to open an investigation on this scandal or are those limited only to countries and people who were against the invasion of Iraq?
Some of the work involved postwar fuel imports carried out by K.B.R. that previous audits had criticized as grossly overpriced. But this is the first time that an international auditing group has suggested that the United States repay some of that money to Iraq.
The group, known as the International Advisory and Monitoring Board of the Development Fund for Iraq, compiled reports from an array of Pentagon, United States government and private auditors to carry out its analysis.
