Monday, March 14, 2005

I just thought this is an interesting use of words in the New York Times.

Excess Fuel Billing by Halliburton in Iraq Is Put at $108 Million in Audit


Excess billing for postwar fuel imports to Iraq by the Halliburton Company totaled more than $108 million, according to a report by Pentagon auditors that was completed last fall but has never been officially released to the public or to Congress.

Doesn't postwar mean "after the war"? Is the war in Iraq over? Or, since the same article seems to describe the "postwar" period as "the occupation", does that mean that they now agree with President Bush when he declared on May 1, 2003 that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended"?

Can we now say that x number of soldiers have died "since the occupation began" as opposed to "when Bush said that major combat had ended", in other words "since Bush lied to us"?

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