The clean-up took around $1.5 billion, and repairing damaged infrastructure will cost about $3.7 billion.
So why not use the money to improve damaged infrastructure, especially to ease movement of workers and supplies?
They needed to find ways to return their employees to work and to make a badly damaged infrastructure function.
They had little access to food, water or power, as shops shut down and the battle had damaged infrastructure.
A grant of A$49,000£27,00000) will be provided for the cull and to repair damaged infrastructure.
Officials also warned that damaged infrastructure could create further dangers as storms approach in the week ahead.
The legislation also promises to help restore damaged infrastructure and to provide social and economic assistance to particularly hard-hit areas.
While Fallows mistakenly thought the invasion would trigger an immediate refugee crisis, he was prescient about the dangers of civil disorder, damaged infrastructure and sectarian conflict.
Severe flooding and damaged infrastructure made roads impassable and, along with power outages and water supply contamination, caused many of these facilities to shut down.
Officials aimed to continue to discharge as much water as possible ahead of upcoming storms, without adding too much pressure to the already damaged infrastructure.
Iraq could ill afford to repair damaged infrastructure.
