I think the Wall street verse needs further attention - for one of the exploitative aspects of the invasion is that the USA (and allies) have destroyed Iraq's infrastructure, and yet rather than the US paying Iraq compensation, the reconstruction program will line the pockets of US companies - and to the extent that there is any aid program the funding will be recouped out of Iraq's remaining share of its own oil revenues - and the US capitalists will continue to suck the economic lifeblood out of Iraq for generations...