Mr. Shaman
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- May 4, 2010
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Businessmen As US Presidents Just Doesn't Work.
....Especially the one who couldn't (even) find oil in TEXAS!!!
"A decade after the U.S.-led invasion, Iraq is now producing about a million more barrels per day than it was on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Thats a 35 percent increase, close to record highs for the country.
Iraqs oil resurgence is impressive, yet analysts are hesitant to call it a categorical win. If anything, the recovery has been slower than it shouldve been. Id give it a solid C, says Michael Knights, a Lafer Fellow at the Washington Institute who spent much of the last decade in Iraq, working as a consultant to oil companies.
Much of the fault lies in mistakes made in the first year after the invasion, says Knights, most notably the de-Baathification and lack of security that led to an exodus of Iraqs oil technocrats, many of whom were Sunnis who fled to places like Dubai and Jordan."