actually, the war is very profitable, just not for us people who aren't in it. PMC's are the majority of the fighting force over there and they get huge contracts, ie: Blackwater. Despite pillaging a village, they were rehired with a new contract after their old one expired. Banks are also probably going nuts with profit, too. War is expensive. Expenses call for cash, and who's got that? The banks, who loan out money with interest. Let's not forget the oil companies, here too. They're copmletely taking advantage of what's going on, saying we can't get oil because of the conflict and that's why prices are going up even though their profits are higher than ever.
The ends still do not justify the means. Mainly because there isn't supposed to be an end. The Bush administration set up this war to last forever on purpose. Let's see, whose one of the big guys profiting? Oil. Who has connections with oil companies? Bush. Who is another big guy profiting? PMC's. Who has connections with PMC's? Cheyney. There never was a plan to get the Iraqi government together, that's why it's such a clusterfuck over there. Even if there was a plan to get things moving in the right direction, Iran wouldn't let it happen. Most of the insurgants are either from or getting their weapons from Iran. I haven't done any research on wether or not Iran is profiting from this, but by keeping the fighting ground in Iraq, it keeps it away from them. They probably see as a huge distraction so they can continue with their nuclear testing. So in a way they are profiting. It's a war fueled by two countries inside of another country, for no reason whatsoever. It never needed to happen and everyone knows it.