War by Numbers

How long it took the government to approve a six-month extension of a $587-million contract to Halliburton, according to the Government Accounting Office: 10 minutes

Donations that Parsons Brinkerhoff construction company, one of two firms picked to share a $43.4 million contract to help manage reconstruction of Iraq’s electricity grid, gave various Republican party committees in the past five years: $90,000

Amount donated to Democratic groups: $8,500

Donations construction giant Fluor Corp., which recently was awarded a $500 million contract to design and build electricity facilities with AMEC, gave various Republican party committees in the past five years: $48,000

Amount that went to similar Democratic groups: $4,500

Monthly amount the Pentagon is paying the Iraqi political organization led by Ahmad Chalabi, a member of the Iraqi interim government who has close ties to the Bush administration, for “intelligence collection”: $340,000

Amount Pentagon gave to Nour USA, whose president is A. Houda Farouki, a friend of Ahmad Chalabi, to outfit the new Iraqi military, then canceled after two losing bidders complained that the decision-making process was confusing and contradictory: $327 million

The value of the contract that URS Group Inc., which is partly owned by Richard C. Blum, the husband of Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, received to help manage reconstruction of Iraq’s transportation, communications, security, education and health infrastructure: $27.7 million

Amount in donations engineering firm CH2M Hill, which recently was awarded a $28.5 million contract with the California construction firm Parsons Corp., gave various Republican committees over the past five years: $69,000

Amount that went to similar Democratic groups: $34,000

Date the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority is scheduled to hand sovereignty over to an interim Iraqi government: June 30

Diplomats who will remain in Iraq after June 30 to help manage $18.4 billion in reconstruction funds: 3,000 to 5,000

How much the U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base inflated budget proposals at the Pentagon’s request last year: $20 million

Amount the Pentagon is contributing to help a production of Macbeth tour U.S. military bases: $1 million