Bush proposes giving trade preferences to Iraq

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.adn.com/24hour/iraq/story/1630936p-9334738c.html

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (September 7, 2:44 pm ADT) - President Bush said Tuesday he intends to place Iraq on a list of countries that get preferential treatment on goods exported to the United States, just as he did for Afghanistan.
In January 2003, Bush added Afghanistan to the list of developing countries with preferred treatment on exports to the United States.

The Generalized System of Preferences gives the president authority to cut tariffs for countries that meet certain criteria to boost U.S. imports of their products.

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[atreides1]

1. Okay

So we know were getting more heroin from Afghanistan, what is there besides oil are we getting from Iraq.

I know flag draped coffins.:(

[Disturbed]

3. The Rabbit Hole.

The Hand-Over That Wasn't: Illegal Orders give the US a Lock on Iraq's Economy
by Antonia Juhasz

Officially, the U.S. occupation of Iraq ended on June 28, 2004. But in reality, the United States is still in charge: Not only do 138,000 troops remain to control the streets, but the "100 Orders" of L. Paul Bremer III remain to control the economy.

These little noticed orders enacted by Bremer, the now-departed head of the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority, go to the heart of Bush administration plans in Iraq. They lock in sweeping advantages to American firms, ensuring long-term U.S. economic advantage while guaranteeing few, if any, benefits to the Iraqi people.

The Bremer orders control every aspect of Iraqi life - from the use of car horns to the privatization of state-owned enterprises. Order No. 39 alone does no less than "transition from a … centrally planned economy to a market economy" virtually overnight and by U.S. fiat.

Although many thought that the "end" of the occupation would also mean the end of the orders, on his last day in Iraq Bremer simply transferred authority for the orders to Prime Minister Iyad Allawi - a 30-year exile with close ties to the CIA and British intelligence.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0805-07.htm

[Parche]

2. exports

Camels and sand?

[Green Lantern]

4. He already gave them

trade preferences-called Halliburton