There has always been war profiteering and just because it is so, doesn't make it right. However, several companies profited as a result of that war while the off the budget financing of the war added at least three trillion dollars to the US sovereign debt and what did the country do, but extend the Bush tax cuts for the upper brackets, over and over and over again. The new congress will probably make them permanent.
I'm like JP in that I still get upset about it even as we are sending troops back to Iraq.
I know this is historical fiction, but it really does strike a nerve.