US commerce secretary urges investment in Iraq

[Barrett808]

Source: AFP

AMMAN (AFP) - US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez on Sunday, insisting that security in Iraq has improved, urged businesspeople to look at potential opportunities to invest in the war-ravaged country.

"What we see today is that the security situation has improved, it has improved to such a way where we believe companies should be taking a look at potential opportunities," Gutierrez told reporters in Amman.

"With security improving, businesses are growing and jobs are created, giving people hope and a different view of the future. So having more security attracts more investments."

Gutierrez is in Jordan to take part in the US-Middle East and North Africa Trade and Investment Conference which opens on Monday on the shores of the Dead Sea.

"If Iraq grows that could be very positive for Jordan and the whole area," he said, a week after Iraqi Finance Minister Bayan Jabr Solagh urged Jordanian businessmen to invest in what he called his country's "booming economy" during talks with King Abdullah II.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080210/pl_afp/iraquseconomyjordan

[fascisthunter]

1. Yes... We'll Do So Right Away, With Private Money

Right, corporate America? After all, you don't believe in the Commons so, maybe you should pay for it all.

[NashVegas]

2. Contrast With This One

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3176191

[rcole11]

3. Why should corporate America worry about a shrinking middle class when it can exploit

a new source of cheap labor

[LynnTheDem]

4. ROTFLMAO!!!

Banking on that "one born every minute".

:rofl:

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Oh yeah, like THAT'S gonna be the next "big new thing".

[mediaman007]

6. Let's give the taxpayers some rebate money so they can

jump start the corporations. Then the corporations can invest in Iraq.

Irony?

Can't Bush* just look behind him and see the mess in our country. The war in Iraq has bankrupted us. Just like Afghanistan bankrupted the Soviet Union.

Bin Laden has won!

[CONN]

7. How about investing in the US (eom)

[yellowcanine]

8. Yeah right. I think I will callmy retirement fund manager in the morning and get in on some of that

easy money. Un huh.:sarcasm:

[MadMaddie]

9. Hunh ....I would think that the US Commerce Secretary would be

thinking about US commerce....oh well no surprise there.

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. I'll be forwarding my business plan for a Baghdad Hotel-Casino shortly

I hope you all read it with care!

I also have plans for a City Tour Double Decker Bus company serving Mosul.

Get on board while it's cheap!

:rofl:

[Dr.Phool]

11. Did he say "booming economy" with a straight face?

Invest in an economy with no police, running water, or electricity? Yeah, right.

Throw in free Fed Ex to send my head back home, and I'll think about it.

[annabanana]

12. Sounds like a "winner" to me!

sign here:

[badgervan]

13. Typical bushite Nonsense

Invest billions in Iraq, while our own country's highways, bridges, etc. are falling apart. What is with these people?