They Did What !

For several years now there has been grousing and complaining about Halliburton’s no bid contracts, overcharges, and connections with Dick Cheney. Finally the Army announced it will terminate Halliburton’s contract for supplying services to the U.S. military in Iraq and elsewhere. And, they further announced, the single company contract will be replaced with multiple contracts.

The real news is the reason given for the change. According to the Pentagon it has nothing to do with the ongoing criticism. They just realized that having multiple suppliers would help keep costs down and performance up. Sort of a “Free Market� competitive basis for doing business.

How do you suppose, after paying Halliburton billions and billions of dollars (and with no mention of restitution of the overcharges) they suddenly came to that realization? According to spokesman David Foster, “The Army lives on lessons learned. We get better each and every time we do it.�

Well that is a relief! With bright people like that in charge of our military, we can rest assured all will be well.