AFP is reporting that Vice President Dick Cheney coordinated a huge Haliburton Iraq contract despite Cheney's denials, according to a Time magazine story.

A March 5, 2003 email from an Army Corp of Engineers official details how Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith coordinated his approval of the huge Haliburton no-bid contract with the Vice President's office before submitting it to the White House for Bush's approval. Three days later Haliburton "won" the contract.

"As vice president, I have absolutely no influence of, involvement of, knowledge of in any way, shape or form of contracts led by the Corps of Engineers or anybody else in the federal government," Cheney told NBC's "Meet the Press" in September, Time said.

Time magazine's latest issue which hits the streets tomorrow has the whole story.

Cheney of course was Haliburton's CEO until he accepted the VP slot in 2000. Since then he has repeatedly denied having any personal interest or stake in Haliburton. This despite the fact that Haliburton is alleged to have formed a key constituent of the Cheney Energy Taskforce which the VP has fought tooth and nail to prevent anyone from finding out details of. Enron and others are also alleged to have formed core constituents of that same Energy Taskforce.

Didn't the Bush/Cheney team promise in 2000 to restore honor and dignity to the White House? They inherited a balanced budget with projected 10 figure surpluses. Four short years later we're running projected 10 figure deficits. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq account for only a small fraction of that spending.

All of this begs the question: Is the Bush Administration Enroning American? And who are they really serving - Corporate America or We The People?

Props to Carla for coining the phrase, "Enroning America" last year sometime.