And the money keeps rolling out...

From the NY Times:

Army to Pay Halliburton Unit Most Costs Disputed by Audit

By JAMES GLANZ
Published: February 27, 2006

The Army has decided to reimburse a Halliburton subsidiary for nearly all of its disputed costs on a $2.41 billion no-bid contract to deliver fuel and repair oil equipment in Iraq, even though the Pentagon's own auditors had identified more than $250 million in charges as potentially excessive or unjustified.

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I'm coming to the conlcusion a very bad sitcom writer is running this world... There's just no other explanation anymore.