Royal rip-off

From the Houston Chronicle editorial board:

For about a year, officials at Halliburton have insisted that the purchase of overpriced fuel in Kuwait was not their decision. According to Halliburton, the Army Corps of Engineers insisted Halliburton's subsidiary, KBR, buy Kuwaiti gasoline that was $1 a gallon higher than Turkish suppliers were offering. Newly released State Department documents tend to support Halliburton's account.

According to the documents, the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait, Richard Jones, and other senior officials pressured KBR to make a deal with Kuwait and not ask any questions. Not only was KBR ordered to buy from Kuwait, but from a single company in Kuwait --a company whose shadowy ownership has ties to the ruling elite.

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Just another day of old-school crony capitalism for the amazingly corrupt Bush administration. Is anyone actually surprised by this? I mean anyone who doesn't have his fingers in his ears and a blindfold over his eyes. You know, anyone who didn't vote for the chimp.

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