or for some more analysis on this let's bring in david swanson author of war is a line david thank you very much indeed for joining us well as we heard there in moran's report the u.s. is pledging one hundred fifty million dollars in rebuilding aid for iraq in twenty eighteen do you think that's enough. it's obviously not enough when even the iraqi government is asking for one hundred billion and clearly vastly more than that is needed the cancer epidemics that finally now have the former vice president biden admitting that his son probably died from the open burns of poisons that killed and wounded how who knows how many iraqis you have villages and cities that have been destroyed to save them mosul newly ruined you have protests and fires in baghdad that we don't hear about the way we would if they were in iran and the u.s. government just upped its military spending eighty billion dollars of for no clear purpose other than to proceed with preparations for creating more disasters around the world like this one it would cost much less to do what's needed to fix iraq then to continue f