U.S. investment and business in Iraq quadrupled in 2011, along with huge gains for foreign businesses overall. Iraq’s oil industry in particular is attracting foreign companies as Iraq’s government spends billions of dollars to upgrade infrastructure to make the country a more attractive investment. U.S. companies reached deals worth $8.1 billion through Dec. 1, up from $2 billion last year and total foreign investment and business activity hit $70 billion, up from $42.7 billion last year.
Western capitalism, everyone enriching themselves upon the misery of any one less educated, it strikes again.
Good thing it wasn't about the oil….
Only quadrupled? The corporations must be getting slow in their old age. Or maybe, they're just too busy setting up shop in Syria and planning the Iran facilities.