USA: Report Singles Out Halliburton in Iraq Mismanagement: Mr. Cheney, would you answer some questions? “Defense Department planners had failed to determine adequately the needs of U.S. soldiers in Iraq or effectively oversee the billions of dollars’ worth of contracts they had issued. While Pentagon officials defended their efforts by blaming any mistakes on the pressure of the war’s early days, the investigators said that they had found ongoing waste in the contracting process a year after the invasion began. In remarks to reporters, Walker speculated that the total losses due to waste could amount to ‘billions.’”
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