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To: E who wrote (113169)	8/28/2003 1:33:37 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) of 281500

The Washington Post on the size of Halliburton's Deals in Iraq commondreams.org <<...Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Cheney, has won contracts worth more than $1.7 billion under Operation Iraqi Freedom and stands to make hundreds of millions more dollars under a no-bid contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to newly available documents. Ex-Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney The size and scope of the government contracts awarded to Halliburton in connection with the war in Iraq are significantly greater than was previously disclosed and demonstrate the U.S. military's increasing reliance on for-profit corporations to run its logistical operations. Independent experts estimate that as much as one-third of the monthly $3.9 billion cost of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq is going to independent contractors...>> [Published on Thursday, August 28, 2003 by the Washington Post]

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