“Virtually every measure of the performance of Iraq’s oil, electricity, water and sewerage sectors has fallen below pre-invasion levels even though $16 billion of US taxpayer money has already been disbursed in the Iraq reconstruction program, several government witnesses told the Senate foreign relations committee”, the February 9, 2006, New York Times reported."

"Iraqis Endure Worse Conditions Than Under Saddam, UN Survey Finds
18 May 2005" (And it ain't gettin' any better.)

"Violence aside, Baghdad is broken. Water runs only an hour a day, power is on for 4 hours, and sewage runs in the streets."

''Under the previous dictator regime, the basic rights for women were enshrined in the constitution,'' Houzan Mahmoud from the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq told IPS in an interview. The group is a sister organization of MADRE, an international women's rights group."

"The recent constitution which was written under the U.S. government's supervision is ''very backward and anti-women,'' Mahmoud said. ''They make Islam the source for law making, and the main official religion of the country. This in itself means Islamic Sharia law and according to this women will be considered second-class citizens and will have no power in deciding over their lives.''

The Most Tragic Victims of the Iraq War
Carol Bellamy, UNICEF's Executive Director, has called the death of 34 children in recent bomb attacks "an unconscionable slaughter of innocents."

"Iraq Inc. will introduce to you the entrepreneurs who really understand
war profiteering and the price the rest of us will have to pay."
- Matt Swibel, senior reporter Forbes Magazine

"A powerful combination of investigative research and on-the-ground reporting."
-Naomi Klein, author No Logo, columnist The Guardian, UK

In Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation Pratap Chatterjee, managing editor of watchdog group CorpWatch, brings us the dilapidated hospitals, looted ministries, and guarded corporate enclaves that mark the plunderous road to America's liberated Iraq. Bringing together a critical mass of evidence from major media sources with an on-the-ground account of the Iraq occupation business, Chatterjee presents the most complete-to-date chronicle of the exploits of private contractors hired to reconstruct and manage Iraq.