A joint investigation by Corporate Watch, an independent watchdog, and London daily The Independent, shows British corporations made at least £1.1 billion from the Iraq war after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
See here.
The report acknowledges that British business still lags behind the huge profits paid to American companies, like Dick Cheney's Halliburton.
Many of these corporations are in private paramilitary, or in public relations, business.
Of the total profits published in the report, the British taxpayer has had to meet a bill for £78m while the US taxpayer's contribution to UK corporate earnings in Iraq is nearly nine times that.
Iraqis themselves have paid British company directors £150m.
Meanwhile, electricity etc., life in general, is still worse for Iraqis than before the war. Far over 100,000 Iraqis, and thousands of US and UK soldiers, have died, and keep dying.
Why is that continuing? Part of the answer is in the profits of some corporations.