NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Army is laying the groundwork to let Halliburton Co. keep several billion dollars paid for work in Iraq that Pentagon auditors say is questionable or unsupported by proper documentation, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.According to Pentagon documents reviewed by the Journal, the Army has acknowledged that the Houston-based company might never be able to account properly for some of its work, which has been probed amid accusations that Halliburton's Kellogg Brown & Root unit overbilled the government for some operations in Iraq.
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Yes. This is nuts.
No tickee, no shirtee... how hard is that understand?
On the other hand, consider the maxim: if you owe the bank 10K, they own you. If you owe the bank 1000K, you own them.
Halliburton owns Bush, because they own Iraq: there is only one game in town, Halliburton, and it is of the presidents own making. If they do NO pay Halliburton, well, Halliburton could just pull out of the bidding, and that would be the right business decision.
Halliburton owns the war.
It's not quite so clear as the Benedict Arnold days, but Bush is a traitor: he has sold out his country, literally.
Now here is precisely where religion contrasts with law: ignorance of the rules is not a defense in law, but it is in religion, in morality. Bush, holding what is basically a religious office as seen by his supporters, his voters, cannot possibly make a mistake because he did not intend harm, ie, he was ignorant.
It is literal truth under the religious mind set, literal truth that Bush can do no wrong.
Maybe there should be an intelligence test for religion: it requires profound thinking and you if are not up to it, you just can't join.
It also means the rats are leaving the ship: get your money now because when Kerry is president, all bets are off. A Kerry administration has no special love (or vice president) to care for Halliburton.
Now, bring Eliot Spitzer into the game, and Halliburton is going to really need that money if only to pay it back plus other fines and costs.
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