"dave weil" wrote in message
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On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:31:02 -0800, "Michael McKelvy"
wrote:

Translation, the Dems have nothing so they dig for dirt.
The price they are charging for gas is hardly unreasonable given the cost
of
security. You lefty's do understand there are people shooting over
there,
right?

You obviously haven't been reading the coverage. Neither you nor
Sandman seem to realize that this wasn't an instance of Kellogg et.al.
gouging but *being* gouged by the Kuwaitis. They were charging almost
twice as much Turkish distributors. I don't see where there's a
substantial difference in securing oil from Kuwait versus Turkey. In
fact, one would think that delivering and securing Kuwaiti gas would
be cheaper than from Turkey. In fact, KBR claim that they make the
same amount of money (a "few" cents) from either source. So, the cost
of security of the shipments isn't the issue in this case. It's a
procurement issue. KBR claims that this supplier was the only one of
four Kuwaiti distributors that met the terms of the contract with DOD.
Yet, that doesn't explain why they couldn't continue to rely on $1.18
a gallon gas from Turkish sources, or require the distributors from
Kuwait to drop their prices from the $2.27 price and/or meet the Core
of Engineers standards of the contract.

It's sounding more and more like a sweetheart deal with the Kuwaitis.

There are quite a few other instances of overcharging and/or
overserving for billing purposes.

Despite what Mr. Krueger said, all of this was uncovered by an
internal Pentagon audit triggered by the concerns of several
Congressmen. Partisan or not, it looks like they may have done the
"Republican" thing and uncovered instances of waste, incompetence, or
possible abuse in the Federal government.

If only theycould clean their own house so well.

My hunch is that in the end Haliburton will in fact be blameless and Sandman
will look for new lies to tell.

BTW, I went to Dean's web site and found that he believes women should be
paid the same as men.

Obviously the inference is that the women are not being paid the same as
men. This is of course false. I'm guessing this would be an example of why
the Dems love the guy, he's just as capable as anybody of telling the same
old lies.