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Article: IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 25 - Iraq, Five Years After The US Invasion.
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy
- Article date:
- March 24, 2008
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Baghdad on March 20 finished the fifth year since the US invaded Iraq. Three days earlier Iraq was visited by US Vice-President Dick Cheney. Already Arizona Senator John McCain had arrived in Baghdad with a US Congressional team to assess the situation in Iraq. Both Cheney and McCain are hawkish members of the Republican Party. While the Republican administration of George W. Bush and Cheney will see their second and final term end in January 2009, both are hoping McCain will win the November presidential election.
It seems it will take another number of years before Iraq can focus properly on the non-oil parts of its economy. The country's under-performing ...