For more on how corporate America will benefit from its self-made war, please read Corporate America Divvies Up The Post-Saddam Spoils by Arianna Huffington.

Here are a few excerpts:

The Bush administration is currently in the process of doling out
over $1.5 billion in government contracts to American companies
lining up to cash in on the rebuilding of postwar Iraq.

To further expedite matters, the war-powers-that-be invoked
"urgent circumstances" clauses that allowed them to subvert the
requisite competitive bidding process -- the free market be
damned -- and invite a select group of companies to bid on the
rebuilding projects.

So just which companies were given first crack at the post-Saddam
spoils?

Between them, the bidders -- a quartet of well-connected corporate consortiums that includes Bechtel Group, Fluor Corp., and, of course, Vice President Cheney's old cronies at Halliburton -- have donated a
combined $2.8 million over the past two election cycles, 68
percent of which went to Republicans.

Where else will a $2.8 million ante offer you a one-in-four shot at raking in a $1.5 billion payoff?

She goes on to outline the Bush admin.'s plans to give Iraq "political and economic stability," rebuilding schools, the banking system, and health care system. She quotes dollar amounts, etc. I urge everyone to give this article a read. It is sickening.

IMO, if Bush wants to do so much over there to repair the kinds of things which are so broken over here, with our tax dollars, then I think he should go over there and set himself up as the next little despot and renounce his American citizenship!