Ha! No the "US" is not making a profit (if you mean the nation, the country, the people, the government). Hardly! The private contractors are making a profit. As always. People like Bechtel, Halliburton, Brown & Root, and the oil companies. THEY are making a profit. Those are the joys of privatization. Somebody else dies, somebody else pays for it, somebody else suffers, your country goes deeply into debt, your private coporations (which really control your country) get rich and have no responsibility for the debts and move their money wherever they want to around the world.

That's what it's all about.

Your government is just a helpless corporate tool, BB. You betcha it's costing your government money!!! Billions and billions. And you know where that money comes from? Out of the pockets of ordinary American taxpayers.