Back to Haliburton, this is another example of either a lack of a plan or not communicating well what the plan is... which is why Bush is coming under ever increasing scruitiny. What the Bush admin should be doing is requiring Haliburton to offload or offset some of the work to Iraqi contractors(setting aside whether Haliburton should have been the sole contractor to begin with or whether a bid should have been undertaken). Recent hearings in the Senate have revealed that Iraqi contractors are not being considered in this rebuilding process and are far cheaper than what we're paying Haliburton. This not only drives up the price, but even further alienates the US from the Iraqi people. Instead, the Bush admin continues on this info guarded approach, throwing out a few genereal comments, no specifics with different stories coming from the various department heads.

Mr Bush, you need to come clean with what your plan is and start leading.....!!!!