Iraq

The sharks are in the pool and are in a feeding frenzy.

They are expecting to become very rich off Iraq.



Washington lawyer Robert Kyle, who represents several companies touting for business, said a big source of funds came from seized Iraqi assets, which he said were "subject to a less formal approach" in their allocation than those from USAID, which used U.S. taxpayer money.

Using Iraqi seized funds to outsource projects out of the country is morally not a-OK.



Something that truly bothers me about all this: do the Americans believe they are the only people who can exploit oil, build roads and bridges, factories etc. etc. ?? Who do they think exploited the oil in the past and built those bombed roads, bridges, factories, etc in the first place?? The Iraqi people are quite well educated and they have a good number of engineers, architects and the like to do the work. Let the Iraqi people do the reconstruction, keep the money in Iraq. Build up the country, dont leech it dry.



I would start to have a smidgeon of faith in the good intentions of the US/UK occupyers, were they to apply a kind of 'affirmative action' in Iraq and give preferential treatment to any Iraqi firm when it comes to handing out contracts.



So far, it's American companies almost all the way.



So far, their naked greed turns my stomach.