[varon]

"U.S. companies should be barred from participating in reconstruction in Iraq because you can't profit from a crime," Clark added.

While I wouldn't call the Iraq war a crime I can see where based on events and developments to date, it would not be hard to make a case for the war being a "make work" war for US companies to help bring us out of the recession.

Well, the Iraqi's unwillingness to roll over and play dead has sort of screwed up our time table on the reconstruction phase of the war. Kind of difficult, under the best of circumstances, to start rebuilding in the midst of combat.

I know I'll be flamed by the Rummy & Dubya can do no wrong zealots, so I'll respond to them now.........ouch, ouch, ouch ;-)

[meenie]

I don't feel that the United States is required to build a better infastructure than Iraq had before the war. They can handle this in their own time frame with their own resources. War damage is easy to assess and these problems are a bona fide duty for the US to reconstruct, at the very least. The war was taken to them, they did not choose to bring the war to us.