Consortiumnews.com: Iraq War's Winners and Losers - by Sherwood Ross

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Except for some die-hard "neocon", it is widely recognized that the Iraq War has been a debacle for the United States – paid for in unnecessary loss of lives, international opprobrium, and the diversion of an astronomical sum of money from domestic priorities to warfare. However, some military contractors have done quite nicely; so too have many oil companies, even as the ancillary costs of the $1 trillion-plus war continue to ripple through a devastated U.S. economy, as writer Sherwood Ross describes in this essay.