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Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq
Little, Brown
September 2006
On Sale: August 29, 2006
352 pages
ISBN: 0316166278
EAN: 9780316166270
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
It was supposed to be quick and easy. The Bush
Administration even promised that it wouldn't cost American
taxpayers a thing -- Iraqi oil revenues would pay for it
all. But billions and billions of dollars, and thousands of
lives, later, the Iraqi reconstruction is an undeniable
failure. Iraq pumps out less oil now than it did under
Saddam. At best, Iraqi's average all of twelve hours a day
of electricity. American soldiers lack body armor and
adequate protection for their motor vehicles. Increasingly
worse off, Iraqi's turn against us. Increasingly worse off,
our troops are killed by a strengthening insurgency. As T.
Christian Miller reveals in this searing and timely book,
the Bush Administration has fatally undermined the war
effort and our soldiers by handing out mountains of cash not
to the best companies for the reconstruction effort, but to
buddies, cronies, relatives and political hacks -- some of
whom have simply taken the money and run with it.
Blistering, brilliant and shocking, this will be the
breakout title when it comes to Iraq books, and the catalyst
for national debate.
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