Are U.S. Corporations Going to “Win” the Iraq War? -

[bridgit]

'Upon his return from Iraq on October 5, Senator John Warner, Republican of Virginia, remarked “There is progress being made in certain areas, but you just find that so many communities don’t even have drinking water. It seems to me that the situation is simply drifting sideways.”

Many of us have been saying since before the war began that corporate interests have taken precedence over those of the Iraqi and American public. Reconstruction—that is, the lack thereof, has become an increasingly recognized cost of the Bush administration’s corporate agenda. Another “big cost,” although one receiving far less attention, may in fact be the “big prize:” Iraq’s oil wealth, which is poised to change hands from the Iraqi public to U.S. oil corporations. And, since saying, “I told you so” is inappropriate during wartime, I’m instead going to suggest that we can repair both of these situations by ending both the U.S. corporate and military occupations of Iraq.

Solving Iraq’s Reconstruction Nightmare

Senator Warner’s perception of a failed reconstruction is absolutely correct. As I explain in my book, The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time, the responsibility lies squarely with the Bush administration and its corporate allies.'

http://www.gregpalast.com/are-us-corporations-going-to-%e2%80%9cwin%e2%80%9d-the-iraq-war

[jwirr]

1. How close to the oil pipelines area is that new embassy they

are building?

[bridgit]

7. the sickest part for me is knowing they are using our armed forces...

as a corporate security force; disgusting to me x(

[Double T]

2. Of the corporation, by the corporation, and for the corporation........

so help GWB's god! Wonder if HIS god is Moolah??

[aquart]

3. While war is great for profiteering, it's crap for business.

Aside from the way customers keep getting dead, they lack ability to pay because the economic cycle of jobs and reliable compensation has been disrupted.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

4. What, are you kidding. Corporations aren't accountable

[Disturbed]

5. It may take another 5 years

for the US Multi-Corps to set up in Iraq. They will do so when the three way
Civil War is over and the territories are divided. US Multi-Corps will deal with anyone, no matter what their politics are.

[Rex]

6. Drinking water, electricity. See, things are so easy to fix and

this is how we know the BFEE is in it for the money. They have had 3 years to make the quality of lifestyle better in Iraq. 15 years if you want to include the sanction years and Poppy Bush. At any time, we could have had contractors go in and fix the Iraqi infrastructure. Running water, 24/7 electricity, maybe even garbage pickup. Did we do any of those things? No. And why? Because it is more important to make a buck then to help humans live better lives.

The nightmare is nobody in charge cares. They just want to steal and rob and pillage.