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More millions for Halliburton. Caught stealing $61 million in overcharges for fuel? No problem. If you're Halliburton, you simply wait until the day after Saddam is checked for lice before you announce your latest financial coup (FindLaw/Reuters):

The U.S. military said on Monday Vice President Dick Cheney's former company Halliburton was allocated $222 million more last week for work in Iraq, at the same time as a Pentagon audit found the firm may have overbilled for some services there.

Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root has now clocked up $2.26 billion under its March no-bid contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild Iraq's oil sector.

Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Bob Faletti said a new task order was made for KBR last week worth up to $222 million for the "restoration of essential infrastructure."

Halliburton spokesperson Wendy Hall said that as far as fuel is concerned, on each gallon of gas Halliburton made "only a few cents." Students of public relations, take note: these are highly paid professionals making creative use of the words "only," "a few," and "cents."

We can only wish that someday a humiliated Cheney will be pulled from his undisclosed location (i.e., spider hole) and checked for lice. Meanwhile, besides directing the Halliburton war crimes, in his spare time he kills over 70 pheasants in a single morning at Pennsylvania's Rolling Rock Club and Game Preserve.

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