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Bunnypants seeks $2.1 Billion more for Halliburton Iraqi oil industry
Costs incurred by Dick 'Chicanery' Cheney's "former" company, Halliburton, in Iraq have climbed to about $2 billion and are rising, Army spokesmen said Friday. In March, Halliburton was granted, without competition, a contract by the Army Corps of Engineers to repair and restore Iraq's oil fields. As of Sept. 8, the total cost of that contract to taxpayers was just under $948 million, Corps spokesman Scott Saunders said.

In a letter sent yesterday to the Office of Management and Budget, two Democratic congressmen, Henry Waxman of California and John Dingell of Michigan, called the request "a radical departure from the administration's prior estimates of the costs of oil field reconstruction." They added, "Moreover, it was apparently developed without consultation with the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency overseeing the oil field reconstruction."

A spokesman for the Corps of Engineers said that it had not been contacted by the administration to develop the new estimate, but it remains unclear whether Mr. Bremer's administration spoke to the Corps of Engineers staff in Iraq. The congressmen have asked the budget office for a detailed explanation of how the estimate was derived and a list of the projects involved. - - from the NY Times.