← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Jack Cassidy
Thread ID: 12994 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2004-04-03
2004-04-03 02:30 | User Profile
"[H]istorians will also consider the lack of experience and abundant political connections of the hundreds of American bureaucrats sent to Baghdad to run Iraq through the Coalition Provisional Authority," it writes. One example, of many, is the appointment of Simone Ledeen as a senior economic advisor to northern Iraq at the Ministry of Finance. Ledeen, the daughter of neoconservative luminary Michael Ledeen, is 29, with a new MBA and little or no experience in foreign countries: "**ut as an advisor for northern Iraq at the Ministry of Finance in Baghdad, she is, in essence, helping shape one quarter of that nation's economy." (Wash. Monthly, Dec. 2003)