Blood Money : Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq

by Miller, T. Christian

• ISBN13: 9780316166270
• ISBN10: 0316166278
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-29
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co

Summary

"It was supposed to be quick, easy, and cheap: the Bush administration promised American taxpayers that Iraqi oil revenues would pay for it all. But thousands of lives and billions of dollars later, the Iraqi reconstruction - the largest foreign aid package to any country in the history of the United States - is an undeniable failure. Now, award-winning journalist T. Christian Miller reveals how the Bush administration failed to keep its promises and allowed Iraq to tumble into chaos."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Time Line of Key Events in Iraq War and Reconstruction	xiii
Promises	3	(8)
Part I: Cowboy Days
Man of Honor	11	(8)
High Noon	19	(23)
Back at the Ranch	42	(30)
The Halliburton Gang	72	(20)
The Mother Lode	92	(19)
Part II: Turning Dirt
The Builder	111	(21)
The Shooting Starts	132	(21)
Private Armies	153	(33)
Blind Mice	186	(23)
Part III: Hands Off
Boom Town	209	(14)
The Fix	223	(19)
Hired Hands	242	(18)
Power	260	(18)
Cost of War	278	(9)
Epilogue	287	(8)
Acknowledgments	295	(2)
Notes	297	(22)
Selected Bibliography	319	(2)
Index	321