The New York Times reports the latest bit of good news out of Iraq. It appears we owe the Iraqi government money.

An auditing board sponsored by the United Nations recommended yesterday that the United States repay as much as $208 million to the Iraqi government for contracting work in 2003 and 2004 assigned to Kellogg, Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary.

The work was paid for with Iraqi oil proceeds, but the board said it was either carried out at inflated prices or done poorly.

Now we know why the Pentagon never released its own audits of KBR.

So let's see, no WMD, no cakewalk, no Iraqi oil revenue paying for the whole thing, and now Big Daddy Cheney might have to give some of the money he stole back to the Iraqi government. Seems everything is going accordingn to plan. Nothing to see here folks, move along, nothing to see here. I see Big Daddy Cheney's approval rating hitting single digits, which means we'll declare the U.N. a terrorist organization and conduct a shock and awe style strike against its New York compound.

posted by Idle Crank at 11/05/2005 01:54:00 AM