115^th in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. The nonexistence of Iraqi WMD becomes increasingly public, but top administration figures, fighting a step-by-step rearguard action rhetorically, continue to put the best face they can on previous rationales for war.
January 17-31, 2004:

 
 
Jan. 17, 2004 – Halliburton wins a $1.2 billion contract from the Pentagon for oil industry work in Iraq. The contract is awarded to Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the southern region of Iraq, even though Halliburton is already under ...   more »