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To: Road Walker who wrote (177289)	10/30/2003 11:10:09 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1573901

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is paying Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites)'s former firm Halliburton (NYSE:HAL - news) "enormous sums" -- $2.65 a gallon -- for gasoline imported into Iraq (news - web sites) from Kuwait, two lawmakers charged on Wednesday. Democrats Rep. Henry Waxman of California and Rep. John Dingell of Michigan said this gross overpayment was made worse by the fact that the U.S. government was turning around and reselling the gasoline in Iraq for four to 15 cents a gallon. In a letter of complaint sent to President Bush (news - web sites)'s national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), the two lawmakers said experts they consulted think the cost of buying and transporting gasoline from Kuwait into Iraq should cost less than $1 a gallon. I should have known.......we are paying for the gas largess to HAL. Apparently, we are working very hard to buy the love of the Iraqis. Let me see.......tax cuts at home and free rides in Iraq........we should have an annual budget deficit of over a trillion dollars fairly soon. ted

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