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To: TigerPaw who wrote (36730)	2/2/2004 11:04:28 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Whatever the Bush admin says is going on, you can bet the opposite is true, eg last year Halliburton wasn't in the running for the Iraq contract. Yet Cheney's company got it without bidding: March 28, 2003 Report: Halliburton won't get $600M Iraq rebuild deal Oil services giant Halliburton Co. is out of the running for a $600 million rebuilding contract in post-war Iraq, Newsweek reported Friday. Timothy Beans, the chief acquisition officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, told the magazine that Halliburton is not one of the two finalists for be the prime contractor for the reconstruction of Iraq, although the company could take part as a subcontractor. The USAID plans to award the primary contract next week. Halliburton, which used to be headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, was one of five large U.S. companies that the Bush administration asked in mid- February to bid on the 21-month contract, which involves the reconstruction of Iraq's critical infrastructure, including roads, bridges and hospitals, after the war. Newsweek said it's still unclear whether Halliburton removed itself from contention, was asked by the Bush administration to do so, or whether its bid was simply not deemed competitive. The Houston-based company, which has about 1,500 employees in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, referred questions about the contract to the USAID. On Monday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a firefighting and infrastructure repair contract to Halliburton unit Kellogg, Brown & Root. Rep. Henry Waxman, a Californian Democrat, later sent a letter to Lt. Gen. Robert Flowers, commander of the Army Corps of Engineers, questioning why other oil-service companies had not been allowed to bid. Cheney's spokeswoman, Cathie Martin, said she "hadn't even heard" that Halliburton would not be awarded the reconstruction contract and added, "The vice president has nothing to do with these contracts." Web site: Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL)