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...chronology as a chance to hammer the Administration for its biggest mistake in prosecuting the war: its decision to use an invasion force that proved too small to secure critical sites in the aftermath of the war. The Bush team's explanations failed to solve the riddle. First, Pentagon officials produced a satellite photo from March 17, 2003, showing two Iraqi trucks lingering outside an al-Qaqaa bunker. The photo proves that there was activity by the former regime at the site sometime between the final IAEA inspection and the arrival of U.S. troops. But a Pentagon spokesman admitted...
...small part of the problem. The 377 tons of missing explosives represents no more than 0.06% of the overall tonnage of munitions believed to have existed in Iraq at the time of the U.S. invasion, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies. Pentagon figures show that the U.S. has secured or destroyed 402,000 tons of the 650,000 tons of explosives Saddam is believed to have possessed--meaning that there are still 248,000 tons of unaccounted-for explosives. While much of that is in the form of artillery shells that make ideal...
...billion contract awarded to a Halliburton subsidiary in March 2003 for the repair of Iraq's oil wells. (The FBI is investigating whether Greenhouse's allegations of favoritism, first reported in TIME last week, merit an expansion of its criminal investigation into Halliburton for overcharging the Pentagon.) Meanwhile, TIME has obtained a new document that suggests Greenhouse, who is African American and the sister of NBA great Elvin Hayes, may have been operating in a racially hostile environment. Lieut. General Joseph Ballard, her former boss, said in a sworn affidavit that when he was Corps commander, colleagues told him that...
HALLIBURTON: A Pentagon whistle-blower gets in hot water for flagging a fat contract...
...appreciate how George W. Bush and John Kerry each look at the world, it helps to start with Sept. 11, 2001. Minutes after American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon that morning, President Bush, who had been reading to schoolchildren in Sarasota, Fla., phoned Vice President Dick Cheney from his cabin in Air Force One. "We're at war," he said. As the President's plane was taking off over Florida, Kerry strode down the steps of the Capitol in Washington, having received orders to evacuate. In an interview with the New York Times, Kerry recalled scanning the skies...