Yes - I saw a documentary recently (panorama or dispatches - I can't be sure) all about how the money that was intended to be used in the reconstruction of IRAQ was deliberately mispent before the Iraqi government came to power to make sure that only a tiny percentage of it was left for them to use.

Bush got to say "look how generous I am" while the institutionally racist mechanisms that were meant to put the relief programme into effect played a game, not dissimilar to those played in abu gharaib, where people were teased with what they desperately needed only to have it callously and criminally destroyed in front of their eyes.

There is something evil in the way that Iraq has been treated that is less reminiscent of tha America that instituted the Marshall plan than it is of the regime that the allies had toppled.