Iraq foots the bill for its own destruction.

[Os Cangaceiros]

In addition to making hundreds of millions of dollars in reparation payments to the United States, Iraq has been paying (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/oct/16/iraq.comment) similarly huge sums to corporations whose business suffered as a result of the actions of Saddam Hussein. While millions of ordinary Iraqis continue to lack (http://iq.one.un.org/documents/161/Water%20Fact%20Sheet%20March%202011.pdf) even reliable access to drinking water, their free and representative government has been paying damages to corporations such as Pepsi, Philip Morris and Sheraton; ostensibly for the terrible hardships their shareholders endured due to the disruption in the business environment resulting from the Gulf War. When viewed against the backdrop of massive privatization (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2007/01/08/iraq-oil.html) of Iraqi natural resources, the image that takes shape is that of corporate pillaging of a destroyed country made possible by military force.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/08/12/iraq_hussain/index.html

[Proteus]

Its just gangsterism, nothing else. A large proportion of the MP's who were falling over themselves be-crying the riots and looting in parliament last Thursday voted for the criminal mass-murder, looting and pillage that befell the people of Iraq and their country. But just like the inner-city youth of Britain, the people of Iraq don't count.