Halliburton Bail Out Bill Sweeps Through Senate
Bush expected to sign it immediately

Whew! That was close--the Senate voted 100-0 on an additional $82 Billion dollar appropriation for the GWOT Halliburton shareholders' relief--bringing the grand total appropriated for Operation Go Fuck Ourselves to over $300 Billion dollars. Dick Cheney is breathing a sigh of relief from his secure, undisclosed location in the West Wing.

But, in a gesture of magnamity, the bill also demonstrates concern for the troops--a retroactive increase of almost tenfold (from $12,000 to $100,000) for families whose loved ones were killed in Iraq or Afghanistan, along with additional money allocated for those suffering trumatic injuries--and an increased death benefit on their life insurance policies. Well, they sure know how to look out for them.

In other news, three more Marines now qualify for these increased benefits--and almost 400 Iraqis were killed in the last two weeks alone...but I guess the pro-war crowd no longer cares about the dead Iraqis.