[ravingnutter]

As someone else stated, the problems were fixed two years ago...so it looks to me like they did take responsibility, since they fixed the problem. Therefore, this is nothing but a sensationalized hit piece. They even repeated the Cheney charge again later in the article...

Halliburton is the oil services conglomerate that Cheney once led. Congressional Democrats long have complained that KBR has benefited from its former ties to Cheney.

Blah blah blah...Cheney...Halliburton...KBR...evil...blah blah blah...ad nauseum.

[Night Hides Not]

I hear you, rn...

Let the AP have their fun. All this means to me is that the operations in Iraq are succeeding beyond their wildest fears.

What else can we draw from reports like this, when 18 months ago the news was filled with nothing but carnage from Iraq? In the years to come, military historians will rightly mark the brilliance of the Petraeus "surge" and his plan of counterinsurgency. They will be correct to rank Petraeus with the likes of Grant, Patton, and MacArthur.

Not that Petraeus is yet on par with those 3, but let's see how it all plays out. There's way too much history to be written.

Crickets will really be chirping at the AP, NYT, and others when the troop drawdowns commence later on this year.