President Bush and Mr. Paul Bremer, in the UN and US Congress respectively, described this aid package as similar to the Marshall Plan. It is anything but such a plan. The hallmark of Marshall aid after the Second World War was bringing adversaries together to work on rebuilding Europe. They did this successfully and it led to the EU. The reconstruction of Iraq should be in the hands of the Iraqi people, yet President Bush and his Administration have made no attempt to reach out to the adversaries in Iraq, namely, the Shia, Sunni, Kurdish and Turkmen groups, who are involved in a civil war. The US has made no attempt to resolve differences in order that these people can rebuild Iraq together, as was the case in Europe after the Second World War.