The Shock Doctrine - The Invasion of Iraq

"The whole thing was rigged in a heads-wheat-wheat tails you lose kind of way," says Peter Bergen. "This wasn't an attempt at the strategy that I described in The Shock Doctrine, right? It didn't work because it assumed a level of idiocy on the part of Iraqis." There were three layers of pillage built in to the invasion of Iraq, he adds. 'There's still huge opportunities for profit in the occupation itself in the military, in the war itself in the occupation'