US taxpayers pay for Halliburton Super Bowl party

Just about when we could start celebrating the fact that the Pentagon will not renew Halliburton's contract, this kind of story pops up.  According to the Los Angeles Times, Halliburton went to the bank and spent big on a Super Bowl party in Iraq last year.  Oh, by the way, you and I paid for it:

Halliburton Co. executives ordered a big-screen television and 10 largetubs of tacos, chicken wings and cheese sticks delivered to Iraq forlast year's Super Bowl, then billed U.S. taxpayers for their party,according to a lawsuit unsealed Friday.

The Houston-basedcompany also defrauded the government by double- and triple-billing forInternet, food and gym services for soldiers, according to the lawsuitby a former employee for KBR, the Halliburton subsidiary that runsdining halls for troops in Iraq.

What is this, the Price is Right?  You can't just buy free stuff, especially after overcharging the Pentagon millions of dollars since the war began.  This isn't arrogance.  This is knowing that you can do whatever you want because your former CEO is now the Vice President of the United States.
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