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April 15, 2003 Re: Morning Edition Program April 15, 2003 Dear NPR: I am writing in response to a program I heard on NPR's Morning Edition on Tuesday, April 15, 2003. In the report Mr. Edwards was trying to justify the $8 Billion no-bid contract the Bush Administration awarded to Halliburton to repair burned oil wells in Iraq. According to the report the contract was awarded to Halliburton without taking any other bids because to do otherwise would have slowed down the war plans and that anyway Halliburton had only made $50 Million so far because there weren't that many oil well fires. What Mr. Edwards failed to mention in this lopsided sloppy report was that Halliburton is Vice President Dick Cheney's former company and that the company is currently under SEC investigation for fraud, and further that the contract had been awarded to Halliburton in October 2001 a full year and a half prior to the unprovoked aggression against Iraq. The report also did not mention that Halliburton recently had to pay the government a $2 Million fine for overcharging the government for work done regarding prior contracts. The report did not even hint at the enormous pressure that must have been exerted by Cheney on Bush, in the year and a half between the award of the contract and the attack on Iraq, to make that decision based on the great profits Halliburton stood to gain if we did go to war. This biased report on the war and related topics is just one more in a series of very disappointing reports coming out of NPR since the war started. Lately NPR has come to stand for National Pentagon Radio. Sincerely, |