IRAQ WAR BENEFITTED CHINA, NOT U.S.

"... The United States has spent well over $3 trillion on its Iraq War, while... the studiously neutral government of China that has most clearly benefited from George W. Bush's folly. Beijing... picked up the winner's prize... Iraq has become one of the world's top oil producers... and China is now its biggest customer. Almost half of Iraq's oil production already is shipped to China... [which is] bidding for an even larger stake in Iraq's oil field production..."
"We lost out," Bush Defense Department official Michael Makovsky admits to the Times. "The Chinese had nothing to do with the war, but from an economic standpoint, they are benefitting from it, and our Fifth Fleet and air forces are helping to assure their supply."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/china-benefits-from-bushs_b_3382137.html