john kenneth galbraith's son makes $100 million. he must be the quatrocchi of iraq.
who says democrats don't know how to make money like bush's oil buddies or blackwater?
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From: Shahryar
From: Shahryar
| http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/world/middleeast/12galbraith.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss November 12, 2009 U.S. Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil ProfitsBy JAMES GLANZ and WALTER GIBBS OSLO — Peter W. Galbraith, an influential former American ambassador, is a powerful voice on Iraq who helped shape the views of policy makers like Joseph R. Biden Jr. and John Kerry. In the summer of 2005, he was also an adviser to the Kurdish regional government as Iraq wrote its Constitution — tough and sensitive talks not least because of issues like how Iraq would divide its vast oil wealth. Now Mr. Galbraith, 58, son of the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith, stands to earn perhaps a hundred million or more dollars as a result of his closeness to the Kurds, his relations with a Norwegian oil company and constitutional provisions he helped the Kurds extract. ...deleted |
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Reminds one that the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by US army General Tommy Franks, began under the codename Operation Iraqi Liberation!
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