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At this point, no one should really be surprised by the following:

Halliburton Co., the world’s second largest oil services company, repeatedly overcharged taxpayers and provided substandard cost reports under a $1.2 billion contract to restore Iraq’s southern oil fields, according to a new report by U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman.

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The documents, which cover the period from January 2004 to July 2005, painted “an absolutely abysmal picture of Halliburton’s RIO2 work” and cited profound systemic problems, misleading and distorted cost reports, he said.

We could go into another long diatribe about Halliburton, but at this point is there anything really left to say? Pointing out the dozens of instances where they have been accused of overcharging has become the blog equivalent of Chevy Chase driving endlessly around a London roundabout in National Lampoon’s European Vacation, continually saying “There’s Big Ben! There’s Parliament!”

Besides, as has been demonstrated time and time again, it’s not like anyone is going to stop paying them.