Are you surprised? The Financial Times reports that senior officials from the Bush administration are now leading reconstruction projects in Iraq.

Senior Bush administration figures including Zalmay Khalilzad, former US ambassador to Baghdad, and Jay Garner, the retired general who led reconstruction efforts immediately after the war, are leading a new business push into Iraq. The two one-time senior officials are among a raft of former US soldiers and diplomats either leveraging their war experience helping foreign companies to enter the Iraqi market or starting businesses there themselves.

Read more on the Financial Times (may need subscription).

Is this what the war in Afghanistan will be about? Lots of dead people, billions of dollars spent, just like in Iraq, lots of cruelty so that in the end, a few well-connected people can make billions of dollars. This is obscene. At home, millions of Americans can’t afford health care because the Congress and the Senate can barely pass a health care reform bill that’s humane. They’re too busy pandering to the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. I am so disgusted.

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