U.S. Army Not Paying Halliburton $19.6 Million

    The U.S. Army says that it is withholding $19.6 million from Halliburton over a breach of contract.

   It looks like Halliburton hired Blackwater USA to provide armed security guards in Iraq. That is a big no-no.

The Army has said that its contracts with Halliburton, generally bar the company and its subcontractors from using private armed guards. Halliburton has a different point of view, of course.

   This was announced at a hearing of the House Government Oversight Committee on Wednesday.

    Maybe that is a little cash that at least one of Bush's war profiteering corporations won't get its hands on for a change.

 

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Jerry Falwell Looking Forward To 2008

Reuters

DALLAS (Reuters) - His influence may be diminished but his zeal is undaunted. Evangelist Jerry Falwell is on a mission to keep a like-minded Republican in the White House and get at least one more conservative judge on the Supreme Court.

Despite his years in the trenches of America's culture wars, Falwell -- who founded the Moral Majority political movement in 1979 and helped propel the rise of the religious right -- said a major victory in his broader crusade to restore the country's moral righteousness has so far eluded him.

With abortion still legal, prayer banned in public schools and pornography rife, he sees a long struggle ahead. For now, he is focusing on voter registration drives and rallying the faithful with his eyes on the twin prizes of the 2008 presidential election and control of the Supreme Court.

  Someone must have turned the rock that he was under back over and let him out again. All we need is more  of the religious right putting their paws all over politics once again.

   This is one of Bush's favorite groups so it is a good thing that we will not have to worry about Bush bending to their will after 2008. That is, if Bush hasn't declared marshall law because of our wars with Iraq, Iran, and whoever else he decides to attack.

 

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