[From the diaries by susanhu. Couldn’t Bolton stop this report? What are we paying his salary for anyway!?]
Add this to the chorus of issues that Dick “Dick” Cheney should have tied around his neck like a millstone prior to his tossing into the lake of fire. From Saturday’s NY Times:
The work was paid for with Iraqi oil proceeds, but the board said it was either carried out at inflated prices or done poorly. The board did not, however, give examples of poor work.
Some of the work involved postwar fuel imports carried out by K.B.R. that previous audits had criticized as grossly overpriced.
More outrage below the fold…
Other entries suggest the existence of $600,000 in ghost payrolling in the Electricity Ministry and additional evidence of bribes.
I guess that explains what happened to some of the $9 billion dollars that went missing in Iraq.
Given the spotlight this week on Cheney’s extensive involvement in the fear-mongering that led up to the Iraq War, as well as the fact that he still receives dividends and stock options from Halliburton, wouldn’t it be prudent for Congress to put him under oath and ask him what’s up?
Oh right, that would require the Republican leadership to hold the White House accountable for their failures. That clearly isn’t going to happen soon. In the meantime, we can start engaging our progressive candidates as well as contact our existing Congresscritters and demand that they do their damn jobs.
Enough is Enough! Let that become our mantra in the coming days as we fight the never ending atrocities committed by the Bush War Council.