Cracks in the Junta? Dictatorships can't properly operate like this, why isn't Cheney stepping in and wielding his power? After all, these are all his friends he's supposed to be getting rich?
Errr...because KBR
doesn't want this contract. They've been trying to get rid of it for months:
"KBR has repeatedly tried to transfer the fuel delivery mission to another supplier," said Hall in an e-mail response. "We will work with the DESC to perform a smooth transition of the transportation mission."
Nobody else wants it. KBR is making a couple pennies on the dollar in profit for a high-risk mission nobody else will touch at those margins. A few KBR/Halliburton employees have been killed and several wounded, as I recall.
The Army Corps of Engineers instructed KBR to solicit bids from
Kuwaiti suppliers and the Kuwaiti supplier chosen was the lowest bid they received. It appears the Kuwaiti supplier is the one making double-digit profit margins though they are not the one taking the risks. The scrutiny has now drifted away from KBR because there is no merit to the allegation KBR was 'gouging' tax payers.
If anything, KBR may actually have taken this contract for far less than any sane company would have.
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