Here we go again!

If you examine this blog's URL, you will see it begins with "htvrt." Let's just turn that around: trvth. A little subtle perhaps. In any event, it would be nice if we could get some accuracy from the media and from the bloggers who will jump on the media misstatements and accept them as truth. Example: We were alarmed to hear the first company to get a contract in the rebuilding of New Orleans was Halliburton..." This blog repeats and accepts the less-than-accurate report from Reuters:
"We were alarmed to hear the first company to get a contract in the
rebuilding of New Orleans was Halliburton, another nonbid contract,"
said Leslie Cagan of United for Peace and Justice, which bills itself
as the largest anti-war coalition in the United States. The largest U.S. contractor in Iraq, Halliburton Co.'s subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root has been given a $29.8 million contract to rebuild Navy bases along the Katrina-battered Gulf Coast. What Reuters fails to report, as other media have, that this was let as a result of a $16 million contract that was a competive bid and it was done in July ... long before Katrina was a breeze, let alone a hurricane.