Description: The reconstruction of Iraq is failing, and the author examines the big failings and even bigger swindles of Iraq's corporate management, from the dangerous follies of an out-of-touch government to the unchecked price-gouging by Cheney's successors at Halliburton.
Review Quotes: "Combining on-the-ground reportage with documentary sources, Chatterjee probes every aspect of the reconstruction of Iraq, and wherever the managing editor of CorpWatch looks--from the education and health systems to the host of contractors providing security guards and interrogators--he finds the same failings: delays, disastrous under-performance, blatant over-charging ... There's the raw material here for a Michael Moore film or a collaboration between David Hare and the ghost of Brecht. But Chatterjee is content to leave it raw." -The Guardian, UK
"Pratap Chatterjee takes us into the fast-spinning revolving door between the government officials who attacked Iraq and the corporations who have profited so handsomely from the war. A powerful combination of investigative research and on-the-ground reporting, Iraq, Inc. is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what has really gone wrong in Iraq." " -Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and columnist for The Nation "This book exposes the truly tragic dimensions of the U.S. failure in Iraq, especially how the post-war reconstruction efforts have alienated the Iraqi people even as they've funneled billions of dollars into the pockets of well-connected U.S. companies like Halliburton and Bechtel." -David Weir co-founder of the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), former Managing Editor of Mother Jones, and Visiting Professor in Journalism, Stanford University