Michael Paul Fleischer is a

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businessman from the state of

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Career

On March 13, 2004 Fleischer was appointed to the post of Director of Private Sector Development for the

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. He had been a deputy in the Office of Private Sector Development since November 2003. He took leave from Bogen Communications International, Inc., where he was president and a member of the Board of Directors, to serve in Iraq. He has since returned to Bogen. He is the brother of former

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Criticism in Iraq

The Private Sector Development run by Fleischer came under criticism by many military and civilian analysts for removing Iraqi government subsidies to state owned businesses. This, it was argued, threw thousands out of work thereby giving the insurgency a disaffected pool of recruits. In the area under British control the subsidies were continued. In an article printed in the

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Peter W. Galbraith, a former US Ambassador to

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commented on the policy of not supporting Iraqi state-owned enterprises; 'The privatizing of Iraq's economy was handled at first by Thomas C. Foley, a top Bush fund-raiser, and then by Michael Fleisher, brother of President Bush's first press secretary. ...he told the Chicago-Tribune...that the Americans were going to teach the Iraqis a new way of doing business. "The only paradigm they know is cronyism."'New York Review of Books; Volume 51, Number 14; September 23, 2004; Iraq: The Bungled Transition

References

External links

Insiders Shape Postwar Iraq, by Andrew Zajac

Michael Fleisher

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