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Thomas Foley: Iraq pillager is new American Ambassador to Ireland
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news report
 Monday October 30, 2006 20:15 by anon
and a failed crony at that
How insulting is this.
Bremer had two lieutenants on the economic front: Thomas Foley and Michael Fleischer, the heads of “private sector development” for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). Foley is a Greenwich, Connecticut, multimillionaire, a longtime friend of the Bush family and a Bush-Cheney campaign “pioneer” who has described Iraq as a modern California “gold rush.” Fleischer, a venture capitalist, is the brother of former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. Neither man had any high-level diplomatic experience and both use the term corporate “turnaround” specialist to describe what they do. According to Foley, this uniquely qualified them to manage Iraq’s economy because it was “the mother of all turnarounds.”
Baghdad Year Zero
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0924-13.htm http://dublin.usembassy.gov/ireland/ambassador.html
The embasy says
Mr. Foley served in Iraq as the Director of Private-Sector Development for the Coalition Provisional Authority. Mr. Foley had responsibility for overseeing Iraq’s state-owned enterprises, developing foreign trade and investment, and advising Iraqi Ministries on developing a private-sector economy.
Others say
A Harvard pal of George W. Bush then appointed Foley in August 2003 as Private Sector Development Director for the U.S.-led Provisional Authority (CPA), putting him in charge of 200 Iraqi state-owned businesses, many of which are expected to be privatized. Shortly before Foley�s appointment, a U.S. official said that the U.S.-led coalition decided to renege on an earlier promise to leave privatization decisions to an elected Iraqi government.
http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/contributorsandpayback...D=186
http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/09/unqualified_but.php
Oh apparently alot of the pillaging failed.
Laissez Faire Kaput
http://www.juancole.com/2004/02/laissez-faire-kaput-reu....html
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