This is a well written and informative article about military waste. It is a breathtaking example and of course involves KBR. KBR is part of Halliburton which Dick Cheney is a former CEO. This is an example that should allow decease of costs for the Department of Defense,

Now I understand why conservatives want to eliminate "big government" and "privatize" everything. Taxpayers will be enslaved to cost over-runs and gouging, and legal stealing of our treasury.

Nicely done piece of investigative journalism.

I would like to say that I am shocked to note that mainstream media has not covered this story. I would like to say that. But of course I can not. Mother Jones magazine is revered by the left and renounced by the right. Both views have some validity, but no one can argue that Mother Jones covers stories ignored by the more conventional media. This article exemplifies that view. This is well written and not overtly biased. This also brings to mind the fact that conventional media has suffered a great failure in the death of investigative journalism per se. Thankfully there are vehicles like Mother Jones, Harpers, and yes, Rolling Stone, that fill some of that black hole of responsible journalism.

Those hoping the snouts will be yanked from the trough of US spending on the Iraq War fiasco will find little comfort here. Let's remember Dick Cheney (of Halliburton/KBR) brought us the Iraq War by lying through his teeth.

As President Eisenhower’s farewell speech given on 17 January 1961 warned: “... we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” Adam Weinstein’s article reminds us that this misplaced power persists. Halliburton alone has over charged the Government billions of dollars. Fleecing the Government has become the norm.