Rebuilding Its Economy, Iraq Shuns U.S. Businesses.

[elleng]

— Iraq’s Baghdad Trade Fair ended Tuesday, six years and a trillion dollars after the American invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, and one country was conspicuously absent.

That would be the country that spent a trillion dollars — on the invasion and occupation, but also on training and equipping Iraqi security forces, and on ambitious reconstruction projects in every province aimed at rebuilding the country and restarting the economy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/business/global/13iraqbiz.html?th&emc=th

[fasttense]

1. But didn't Paul Bremer III turn Iraq into a neocon, "free" trade wet dream?

He gave himself a title like Viceroy or something and destroyed the Unions, opened up the borders to all comers, stopped local elections, fired the Iraq Army and didn't collect their weapons, contracted everything out including local building and farming.

So, why didn't American corporations get a piece of the action?

[wuvuj]

2. Fascism sometimes fails?

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