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War profiteering happens even in “good” wars. Arthur Miller made his name in 1947 with “All My Sons,” which ends with the suicide of a corrupt World War II contractor whose defective airplane parts cost 21 pilots their lives. But in the case of Iraq, this corruption has been at the center of the entire mission, from war-waging to nation-building. As the investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele observed in the October Vanity Fair, America has to date “spent twice as much in inflation-adjusted dollars to rebuild Iraq as it did to rebuild Japan — an industrialized country three times Iraq’s size, two of whose cities had been incinerated by atomic bombs.” (And still Iraq lacks reliable electric power.)
-- Frank Rich for The New York Times
Mr. Rich gives us another piece on the war profiteering in Iraq, and how the Bush Administration has brought this to new heights, and how it can seem that this profiteering was at least as important as the mission of bringing democracy to Iraq. At least they were successful with the profiteering. Rich writes of the suicides and murders that have underwritten this corruption.
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War profiteering happens even in “good” wars. Arthur Miller made his name in 1947 with “All My Sons,” which ends with the suicide of a corrupt World War II contractor whose defective airplane parts cost 21 pilots their lives. But in the case of Iraq, this corruption has been at the center of the entire mission, from war-waging to nation-building. As the investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele observed in the October Vanity Fair, America has to date “spent twice as much in inflation-adjusted dollars to rebuild Iraq as it did to rebuild Japan — an industrialized country three times Iraq’s size, two of whose cities had been incinerated by atomic bombs.” (And still Iraq lacks reliable electric power.)
-- Frank Rich for The New York Times
Mr. Rich gives us another piece on the war profiteering in Iraq, and how the Bush Administration has brought this to new heights, and how it can seem that this profiteering was at least as important as the mission of bringing democracy to Iraq. At least they were successful with the profiteering. Rich writes of the suicides and murders that have underwritten this corruption.
