VLVL getting the BUSINESS

[Richard Romeo]

to add to everyone's pique, 
y'day:

The Wall Street Journal reported that San
Francisco-based Bechtel will receive about $350
million more for postwar reconstruction work, or about
50 percent more than previous contract awards, in the
latest sign that the Bush administration has seriously
underestimated the cost of work in Iraq. 

rich


--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Published on Thursday, August 28, 2003 by the
> Washington Post 
> Halliburton's Deals Greater Than Thought 
> 
> by Michael Dobbs
> 
> 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. ...
> 
> continues:
>
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-01.htm>
> and in the Washington Post
> 
> 
> Where's the Pynchon hook?  GR, for starters - war
> profiteers, blood money, etc.  It's all about
> BUSINESS, CONTRACTS, LAWYERS, right?
> 
> Don't forget what Mr T always says -- No War profits
> in this economy, no sir!  
> 
> And, pity the poor fool who believes that....
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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