Wow. Color me completely un-amazed.

The Halliburton corporation, already the Iraq war's poster child for "waste, fraud and abuse", has been hit with a new double whammy. A report from the US State Department accuses the company of "poor performance" in its US$1.2 billion contract to repair Iraq's vital southern oilfields.

And a powerful California congressman is charging that Defense Department audits showing additional overcharges totaling $212 million were concealed from United Nations monitors by the administration of President George W Bush. (my emphasis)

The new overcharges bring to $2 billion, or 42% of the contract amounts, the grand total of questionable bills from Halliburton.

Well, once they quit teachin' all that math and accounting stuff in skool, along with biolergy and stuff good corportate citizens like Enron and CheneyBurton can never be accused of doin' bad stuff again.

Me, I'm just waiting for Powerslime to point out the inconsistency of the kerning in the reports, so they can be named asshats of the year again by the Ann Coulter Fan Mag.