Des Moines Register: War profiteering has long been despised by Americans, and Halliburton's outrageous contract in Iraq ought to reopen that vein of moral outrage. Your government is paying the company more than twice what others are paying to bring in fuel from Kuwait...Vice President Dick Cheney is the former chief executive officer of the company. This may well be legal, but that doesn't mean it is proper.
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Editorial: Some die, others profit
$2.64 a gallon for gasoline for Iraq? Pay to
Haliburton is outrageous.
By Register Editorial Board
12/11/2003
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War profiteering has long been despised by Americans,
and Halliburton's outrageous contract in Iraq ought to
reopen that vein of moral outrage. Your government is
paying the company more than twice what others are
paying to bring in fuel from Kuwait, the New York
Times reported Wednesday.
Halliburton's defense of its pricing - that it's a
costly, dangerous undertaking and that the company can
only negotiate a 30-day contract for fuel - isn't
convincing.
Not when the United States is paying Halliburton an
average of $2.64 a gallon to import gasoline from
Kuwait while Iraq's state oil company pays 96 cents a
gallon and the Pentagon's Defense Energy Support
Center pays $1.08 to $1.19 a gallon.
Halliburton has an exclusive contract. Vice President
Dick Cheney is the former chief executive officer of
the company. This may well be legal, but that doesn't
mean it is proper.