Iraq Rebuilding Badly Hobbled, U.S. Report Finds - New York Times

Iraq Rebuilding Badly Hobbled, U.S. Report Finds - New York Times: "The Army appropriated $1.9 million in November 2002 to create a 'contingency plan' for what to do if Iraqi forces damaged or destroyed the nation's oil complexes and pipelines. That 'task order,' under a running contract, went to Kellogg, Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary. The Army later used that task order as a justification for awarding the company a new $1.4 billion noncompetitive contract to restore oil equipment, a program that became one of the most criticized moves of the conflict partly because Vice President Dick Cheney was once the top executive at Halliburton."