One measure of this policy's impact can be found in the demise of the leather goods industry, a key pre-invasion sector of Iraq's non-petroleum economy. When a government-owned tanning operation, which all by itself employed 30,000 workers and supplied leather to an entire industry, was shuttered in late 2003, it deprived shoe-makers and other leather goods establishments of their key resource. Within a year, employment in the industry had dropped from 200,000 workers to a mere 20,000.
Read the whole thing, and then think about these couple of unrepentant dumb-fucks who helped make it all happen.
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Did you hear CBC guest host Frum interviewing Perle?
While listening I was thinking - You guys never got a single thing right, not a single fucking thing.
So naturally the CBC in its wisdom gave them a show.
Yeah, I was looking for that link, but my hurried google search only gave me links to their stupid book.
I'm glad you brought it here.
They critique Obama for his "inexperience." How idiotic.
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