Posts Tagged ‘George W Bush’

March 2013 SIGR Report: Government Agencies Cannot Fully Identify Projects Financed with Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds

Posted: March 6, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Following the 2003 intervention in Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, the United States initiated a major relief and reconstruction program to stabilize the country, rehabilitate the economy, provide a secure and safe environment by recruiting and training Iraq police and military forces, and provide for humanitarian and emergency relief, among other objectives.

Over the last nine years, the United States provided billions of dollars for thousands of projects funded and managed by multiple federal agencies.1 (more…)

Washington: keep Iraq democratically partner will make it more useful for us and the region

Posted: November 16, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Issue 724, Friday, 16/11/2012
Alsumaria News

Washington has confirmed that the program President Barack Obama at its new presidential focuses on strengthening the partnership with “democratic Iraq,” emphasizing that maintaining this approach will make it “more useful” to the United States and the region.

said Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Melia in response to a question by ” Alsumaria News “that” President Barack Obama will continue in its approach, keen to keep Iraq partner democratically effective for the United States, “pointing out that” this approach will make Iraq more useful for the United States and the region. ” (more…)

Editorial: What of the Iraqi economy’s market economy under the tent?

Posted: October 2, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Iyad Aljassani

Posted 02/10/2012 12:26 PM

1 – How Iraq entered the world of the market economy?

I find it important to start to know the reader market economy before entering to talk about our topic. Not difficult today on each of using a computer to go to the free encyclopedia Wikipedia to find: the market economy or free market economy is the capitalist economy or economic system whose economic liberalism essential component in it, and the idea of a free economy is not state intervention in economic activities and leave the market adjusts itself.

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Parliament discusses U.S. report soon on the money lost by virtue of Bremer

Posted: September 9, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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09/09/2012

BAGHDAD / JD / .. revealed the Foreign Relations Committee that the parliament will be discussed during the next few days the U.S. report on funds Iraqi lost during the period of the civil governor Paul Bremer.

said committee member and MP for the Rafidain list and a member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement Imad Youkhana’s / JD /: The “Parliament will discuss this week the U.S. report on Iraqi funds lost in the rule of Bremer, who reveals the involvement of Iraqi politicians and U.S. known with corruption.” (more…)

Iraq is unable to detect the missing funds during the rule of Bremer

Posted: August 23, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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23/08/2012

BAGHDAD / JD / .. unable to investigations and inquiries for knowing the unknown that spent the Iraqi funds during the rule of the civil governor in Iraq Paul Bremer .. As far as the statements of politicians.

noteworthy that the Iraqi government had directed the Committee to Protect Iraqi funds abroad, follow-up file billions lost During the time of the civil governor Paul Bremer and detection fate of these funds as soon as. (more…)

Iraqi government has denied submitting a request to the U.S. to reduce its presence in Iraq

Posted: July 3, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Tuesday, July 03 تموز 2012

Iraqi government denied on Tuesday that may be requested from the U.S. to reduce its presence in Iraq, noting that it operates under the Convention on diplomatic exchange agreements with the U.S. side, while confirming that the reduction depends on the end of the programs of institutions and U.S. agencies operating in Iraq. (more…)

The continued state of emergency in Iraq to ensure the protection of his government money

Posted: May 20, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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05/20/2012

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BAGHDAD / JD / .. He said the legal expert Tareq war did well U.S. President Obama issued Executive Order (Decree), containing the continuation of a state of emergency and the desire to help Iraq. (more…)

The end of U.S. protection of Iraqi funds nearing their exposure amid fears of an Iraqi looting under Compensation

Posted: April 11, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Date: Thursday, 04.12.2012 0:42

Many experts have warned Iraq of the consequences of non-renewal of the protection of U.S. Iraqi funds that will be vulnerable to looting by the fictitious claimants compensation in the words of the CBI.

Economic Committee of the Iraqi Council of Ministers resolution calling on the Prime Minister and the Foreign Ministry to address the U.S. President Obama about the possibility of extending the protection period for the money another year. And held a special ministerial committee to develop a mechanism to ensure the protection of Iraq’s money in its twentieth meeting on Wednesday morning under the chairmanship of Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Roژ Nuri Shaways and the presence of ministers of finance and oil, Justice and President of the Office of Financial Supervision and Governor of Central Bank of Iraq and Clai and Foreign Ministries of Planning and Legal Adviser to the Prime Minister and Advisor Deputy Prime Minister. (more…)

Washington: Obama chooses an official from the Bush administration for the position of the new U.S. ambassador in Iraq

Posted: March 28, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics, Top Headlines
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27/03/2012 12:49

U.S. President Barack Obama that he was nominated Brett Mac Gork, a former member of the team of former President George W. Bush’s national security, to take over as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq

For his part, the White House said that Gork is running so far the position of adviser to the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad James Jeffrey Indicating that the candidate for this position will be the first U.S. ambassador resides in Baghdad since the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq Last December after being ratified by the Senate

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Maliki meets with US Assistant Secretary of State William Burns

Posted: January 14, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Alsumaria News / Baghdad, met with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday, Assistant Secretary of State William Burns and discussed with him bilateral relations and the latest developments in Iraq.

A source in the cabinet in an interview for “Alsumaria News”, “Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki received today Saturday, Assistant Secretary of State William Burns, and discussed with him bilateral relations and the latest developments in Iraq. “

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said in an interview with TV Sumerian, in (January 6, 2012), that the entry of the U.S. citizen to Iraq has become a Visa and the establishment of , played down the importance of talking about large numbers of the protections of the U.S. Embassy, ​​stressing that Iraq’s relations with the United States turned to the relations of the State of the State. (more…)

Senator McCain: Iraq is on the verge of collapse; Could result in the formation of three different countries

Posted: January 11, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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U.S. senator is likely to “collapse” of the Maliki government and the disintegration of Iraq into three states

was likely a member of the U.S. Senate, Senator John McCain, on Tuesday, the collapse of the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the disintegration of Iraq into three different countries, stressing that the proliferation of militias and death squads in the country and the escalation of tensions between the Kurdish areas and the rest of Iraq and the “escape” the Vice President Iraqi Irbil evidence of the disintegration of the country.

He said U.S. Senator John McCain during a televised debate, said that “Iraq is fragmented, threatening the lives of thousands of American civilians working in the country,” likely to “witness the disintegration of Iraq, which could eventually lead to the formation of three different countries within it. ” He said McCain, a [former] presidential candidate for the Republican Party, that “those American civilians who numbered 15 thousand are not safe,” noting that the United States “may be forced to withdraw them in the event of the collapse of the security situation in Iraq and the rule of chaos in which . ” (more…)

U.S. intelligence warned of the conflict in Iraq after U.S. withdrawal

Posted: December 24, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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BAGHDAD – Babinaoz (Reuters) – warned U.S. intelligence agencies that the security gains in Iraq could spill over into sectarian violence after the withdrawal of U.S. forces, which U.S. officials say has reduced U.S. influence in the country after the occupation that lasted nearly nine years.

The bombings that took place Thursday in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has killed at least 72 people new evidence of deterioration in the security situation after a few days of the last withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

Said Mike Rogers, chairman of the Intelligence Committee in the House “What is happening should not be a surprise to anyone.” (more…)

Iraqis are skeptical that American democracy promised by bringing the country’s

Posted: November 17, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Posted 17/11/2011 08:05 AM

BAGHDAD – Babinaoz: It was not easy Conversation Hussein Ali and his two friends who were sitting in a barber’s shop in a suburb of Sadr City, a mainly Shiite eastern Baghdad on the subject of the democratic promise of the Americans retrieved to Iraq after the war that pushes the country in 2003.

All three have confessed that after painstaking dialogue and hot that the Americans brought democracy to Iraq, they were feeling heartache and bitterness in acknowledging this without digging in was full of painful memories of those years would prefer to call it that years of U.S. occupation of their country.

Ali (21 years), while he was sitting with his friends waiting his turn to have a shave, “okay .. okay .. we are now able to talk freely and elect freely and when we can pretend we like it …. This is true all these things were not present before 2003.” (more…)

The bulk of U.S. forces will leave Iraq by mid-December

Posted: November 4, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Posted 04/11/2011 10:23 AM

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The deputy commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. Thomas Spouyr that the “vast majority” of about 34 thousand American are still in Iraq will leave the country from now until mid-December / December

In 2007, when President George W. Bush, former U.S. reinforcements to counter the insurgency, there were 170 000 troops deployed in the country, as mentioned during the General Conference of the videoconference from Baghdad.

By the end of the year, will be the United States withdrew all its troops from Iraq. The negotiations failed on keeping a few thousand elements until after 2011 in the training mission, because Iraqi officials refused to grant legal immunity to U.S. forces, as demanded by Washington. (more…)

Najafi looking with Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country

Posted: September 29, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Iraqi Council of Representatives announced Thursday, the search boss Osama Najafi withdrawal of U.S. forces end this year with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.

According to a statement issued by the Council of Representatives received a “Twilight News” copy that “House Speaker Osama Abdul Aziz Najafi discussed with Vice President Joe Biden, several important issues were the most prominent of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and the issue of training Iraqi forces,” came during the receipt of a Nujaifi contact call from Mr. Biden on Wednesday.

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American Academy: Iraq is not a success story for the Washington

Posted: August 28, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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The academic and author of American criticism of the results of the U.S. war on Iraq, in 2003, saying that the repercussions of the war reveal the failure of an American counterpart to the failure of other countries in terms of the concept of nation-building, ie, re-glue to the components of the country in order to achieve stability and the establishment of a thriving democracy, according to the views of Americans and the percentage of support for the outcome of the war.

The assistant professor of political science at Swarthmore College American Dominic Tierney, “The Vice President Joe Biden, he claimed when he visited Baghdad on the Fourth of July last year, to cause his visit was to see Obama’s policy on Iraq as a success.” I think that America is winning, as I think that America achieved a balance here in the region, since George W. Bush and even Obama. “

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UPI: Missing $6.6B for Iraq may be stolen

Posted: June 13, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) — U.S. auditors suggest that some of an unaccounted-for $6.6 billion in cash meant to help Iraq rebuild after the American-led 2003 invasion may have been stolen.

The huge missing sum was part of a $12 billion cash airlift the administration of President George W. Bush authorized in 2003 and 2004.

The U.S. and Iraqi governments are closing the books on the program this month but after multiple audits and investigations the Pentagon can’t say what happened to the $6.6 billion — enough to run the Los Angeles or Chicago school systems for a year — the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

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Will Iraq Tilt the 2012 US Election?

Posted: June 5, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Nobody should be surprised that deadly violence is making an alarming return to daily life in Iraq. The real surprise may come a year from now. If the Iraqi government can’t hold itself or the country together, foreign policy could leap ahead of jobs and spending as a major campaign issue in the next presidential race.

Anybody want to bet on how many American troops will still be in Iraq after December 31st? The Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) signed by George W. Bush is a plan not a guarantee. The Iraqis may ask for some of our troops to stay on into 2012. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki recently said he’ll make that decision by August.

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What’s Needed for Democracy in the GCC

Posted: February 23, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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As leaders topple, regimes change and nerves jangle across the Middle East and North Africa, debates rage about democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Suddenly the reputation of George W Bush – whose calls for democracy in the region were ridiculed by those who stated that the region has no history of that form of government – is being viewed (by some) in a kinder light.

If we divert our attention from current events in Libya, Iran, Bahrain and Yemen, and focus specifically on the kingdoms, emirates and sheikhdoms of the GCC nations, what are the chances of their moving to what we in the West think of as democracy? And what are the changes of mindset that they would need to go through to succeed in putting in place what Winston Churchill once referred to as the “least worst form of government”? (more…)