Terry Mcalister reports concerns ‘about the failure of British companies to win reconstruction work in Iraq’:
The failure of leading British companies to make real headway in Iraq is a sensitive issue for Mr Blair and the government, which had to struggle to win domestic political support for the toppling of Saddam Hussein.
Making billions of pounds out of the rebuilding would provide some kind of financial compensation for Britain standing side by side with America during the assault.
But wouldn’t making billions of pounds that way merely confirm that Britain had gone to war on a grubby imperialist agenda? I mean, without being too specific, confirm it for opinion formers writing in some newspapers?