Well,kat, I hate to ruin your day but the news just came out that Haliburton is withdrawing from the contract. A couple of pension plans that are major stockholders have been putting pressure on them to get out of doing any business with countries who sponsor terrorists i.e. Iraq. So they have. Before anyone erupts with glee that the proteses are working, this goes back to last fall when Haliburton opened an office in Dubai to set up operations in Iraq should it become feasible. I did learn that when Cheney was veep at Haliburton, he was continually pressuring Washington to convince the UN to lift the sanctions on Iraq as they were costing American businesses a lot of money in lost business. 'magine that!