Who is doing this reconstruction? US companies have been awarded reconstruction contracts worth not just millions, but billions of dollars. All of these companies were major donors to President Bush's election fund. The biggest contracts have gone to the company in which Vice-President Chaney was formerly involved. Are we supposed to pour in aid to help this process? I previously said here that if Iraq produced bananas rather than oil, the war would never have taken place and I still believe that. The war was primarily about the control of Iraqi oil resources, then about reconstruction contracts – regardless of the cost in human life and misery – and finally about the removal of Saddam Hussein's violent regime.