Find out here. Note that this is not a political site; this is a site recruiting profit-seekers to do the work:
“The reconstruction of Iraq is one of the biggest projects to have been undertaken in over 50 years. May 2003 saw the UN Security Council provide the US and UK with a mandate to take control of Iraq and to use the revenue generated by the export of oil to rebuild the country. This move ended all economic sanctions imposed on Iraq since the Gulf War in the early nineties. The reconstruction of Iraq – planned to take place over the next five years – is expected to cost in excess of $100 billion. At least half of this figure will account for projects to be sub-contracted to outside companies.”
$50 billion dollars in revenue for outside companies! And only 30-40,000 human beings had to be killed and maimed to make it possible.
(Thanks to Alex Miller [Macquarie Philosophy] for the pointer.)
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