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So Halliburton claims that it cost $27 million to ship $82,000 in fuel oil during the Iraq war?

In the latest revelation about the company's oft-criticized performance in Iraq, a Pentagon audit report disclosed Monday showed Halliburton subsidiary KBR spent $82,100 to buy liquefied petroleum gas, better-known as LPG, in Kuwait and then 335 times that number to transport the fuel into violence-ridden Iraq.

Pentagon auditors combing through the company's books were mystified by this charge.

"It is illogical that it would cost $27,514,833 to deliver $82,100 in LPG fuel," officials from the Defense Contract Audit Agency noted in the report.

War profiteering used to be a crime in this country. Where is the outrage?

It gets even worse! Rep. Waxman's office uncovered the fact that the Pentagon let Halliburton redact its own audit before it was sent to the UN auditors. (Thinkprogress.org breaks it down pretty well and has links to the Waxman site at http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=445 ) It's basic, undeniable corrupution. You're right...where is the outrage?

B- How right you are. From the ThinkProgress website:

It turns out the White House gave Halliburton a copy of the negative audit and let the company scrub out all of the negative stuff itself before it was sent to the UN group. A letter from KBR dated 9/28/04 to the Army Corps of Engineers states ìwe have redacted the statements of DCAA that we believe are factually incorrect or misleading and could be used by a competitor to damage KBRís ability to win and negotiate new work.î

And here's the link where you can read Waxman's letter to Shays outlining the criminal activity:

http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20050315113037-84526.pdf

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