Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Former Bush officials ‘are leading a new business push into Iraq.’

Thinkprogress:

In 2008, Tim Shorrock reported for Salon that while “working inside America’s ’shadow’ spy industry, George Tenet, Richard Armitage, Cofer Black and others are cashing in big on Iraq and the war on terror.” Now, the Financial Times reports today that even more Bush administration officials are eyeing profits in Iraq:

Senior Bush administration figures including Zalmay Khalilzad, former US ambassador to Baghdad, and Jay Garner, the retired general who led reconstruction efforts immediately after the war, are leading a new business push into Iraq.

The two one-time senior officials are among a raft of former US soldiers and diplomats either leveraging their war experience helping foreign companies to enter the Iraqi market or starting businesses there themselves.

1 comment:

airJackie said...

Don't be surprise when you hear that the Iraqies have taken over the US companies. It will happen and soon. Iraq was smart enough to get 1 Trillion dollars free from US taxpayers and their smart enough to get over these US crooks.