Microsoft is clearly applying strong money and key personnel to the task of making money out of the rebuilding of Iraq, according to a report in The Nation by Naomi Klein. "I begin to notice that many of the delegates at ReBuilding Iraq 2 are sporting a similar look: Army-issue brush cuts paired with dark business suits. The guru of this gang is retired Maj. Gen. Robert Dees, freshly hired out of the military to head Microsoft's 'defense strategies' division. Dees tells the crowd that rebuilding Iraq has special meaning for him because, well, he was one of the people who broke it. 'My heart and soul is in this because I was one of the primary planners of the invasion,' he says with pride."
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