In the name of urgent repair, the postwar reconstruction industry in Iraq is accelerated by environmental and labor deregulation, corruption schemes, and rapid extraction resulting in a range of environmental and health impacts on communities like Bazian Valley in northern Iraq. Based on periodic ethnographic fieldwork between 2014 and 2023 following the concrete industry and its twin, weapons-recycled rebar, this talk explores the environmental devastation of a single place as it bears the burdens of post-war reconstruction in Iraq. In Bazian Valley, cement mining and concrete production are accompanied by “green” innovations like weapons “recycling” into rebar. Weapons recycling epitomizes the violence of “green” efforts by laying bear how ecological violence is perpetuated through the redistribution of toxic materials through the air, water, and soil; and how bodily harm is experienced through working and living conditions shaped by the heat, dust, and noise of such an enterprise. While the nature of violence in this location has shifted over time, the materials that make up the post-war reconstruction industry (dynamite, munitions shells, cement) are themselves directly linked to US military invasion, base making, and policy-making in ways that make the legacy of the War on Terror forensically traceable and ecologically palpable.