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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob who wrote (508248)	12/12/2003 5:47:32 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 769670

"You don't know if anyone is being ripped off." Huh, say again!! " WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites), seeking to deflect criticism from the controversy surrounding Halliburton contracts in Iraq (news - web sites), said on Friday he believed a subsidiary overcharged the U.S. government for fuel deliveries to Iraq by $61 million, and expected it to be repaid.<b/> Bush told reporters the Pentagon (news - web sites) was investigating the overcharge after an audit found Halliburton's Kellogg, Brown & Root unit overcharged the U.S. Army by $1.09 per gallon for nearly 57 million gallons of gasoline for Iraqi citizens. "Their investigation will lay the facts out for everybody to see. And if there's an overcharge, like we think there is, we expect that money to be repaid," Bush said. Critics of the Bush administration say Halliburton, the Houston-based oil company where Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) was chief executive, has unduly benefited from its government connections. The fuel deliveries fall under a contract awarded, without competition, to Halliburton in March." "http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20031212/ts_nm/energy_halliburton_bush_dc