Book review .. Blood Tribute: Billions Wasted, Lives Lost,And the greed of giant corporations in Iraq
Apart from the military and political aspect that dominated the events of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, The book : “Blood Tribute: Billions Wasted, Lives Lost, the greed of giant corporations in Iraq” by: T. Christian Miller in his three sections to reveal the other side of war, and highlight on American promises to rebuild Iraq at a time when its rich resources and wealth were scattered, instead chaos were spread and The Iraqi people paid a tribute of blood according to the great deception that the Iraqi people paid for with rivers of blood.
The writer begins by narrating the main events, starting with the fabrication of pretexts for the invasion of Iraq and the deception of public opinion, and ended with the destruction and devastation due to the American policy and the takeover of giant American multinational corporations as Bechtel, Fleur, Washington International Group, Bernie, Parsons, and CH2M Hill, Inc. over big contracts, disagreements appeared between the State Department
and the Pentagon about controlling the money, preventing France, Germany and other companies from getting major reconstruction contracts., and at a later stage the announcement by David Kaye, the chief US weapons inspector in Iraq expressed its failure to find weapons of mass destruction, which was the main justification for launching that war, and intelligence information that was relied upon before the war was wrong, and hence the announcement of the American major general Bill McCoy that The united states of America “never intended to completely rebuild Iraq”.
This was preceded by the US President Bush’s announcement that “the rebuilding process has didn’t always go as we planned” and this contradicts what he declared at the beginning of the invasion that the goal of rebuilding is to make the infrastructure in Iraq the best in the area.
Therefore, it reveals the precise details of what was going on in the halls of American politics in its hidden dimension from the media in the middle the hustle and bustle of the war machine, where the writer deals with the ravages of American companies and whose behind them the politicians of the American conservative party to win the imaginary contracts for what it called by the US government The Reconstructing of Iraq, as the neoconservatives have promoted waging war through pretense that getting rid of Saddam Hussein would give the United States a chance to create a free and open democratic society in the Middle East. Which later turned out to be discredited, just as Iraq was invaded and occupied through the lie of weapons of mass destruction, which was later revealed to be false. This shows the failure of American declared policy in the most important areas that it promised, represented by reconstruction, and the writer has drawn his information from records he collected during the interviews he conducted and the official documents he collected for more than two years, as well as his communications with the Los Angeles Times magazine about the reconstruction process in Iraq, in addition to visiting Iraq four times.
