A Band of Brothers: The Rebuilding of Iraq
By Stephen Pizzo
Award-Winning Investigative Journalist
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The Wall Street Journal describes it as "the largest government
reconstruction effort since Americans helped to rebuild Germany and Japan
after World War II." Just how much the rebuilding of Iraq will cost
American taxpayers is a figure still too elusive to capture. But, the
President's request for an additional $87 billion in September atop the
$3.7 billion a month we are already spending, indicates the final figure
will be, as one pundit described it quite "an adult number."
Recent estimates now put the final figure somewhere between $200 billion
to as much as half a trillion dollars over the next ten years.
America's Iraq-sticker-shock may turn to anger when taxpayers discover the
small group of men and companies reaping the benefits of President Bush's
newly found appreciation for nation building.
While Vice President Dick Cheney's company, Halliburton has attracted most
of press attention for its Iraq-related contracts; Halliburton is hardly
the whole story. Halliburton's share is but a slice of multi-billion
dollar pie being divided up among a brotherhood of unusually well
connected and economically related individuals and entities.
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