Bush's Iraq policy aide Blackwill joins Haley Barbour's lobbying firm

[Cocoa]

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041111/dcth025_1.html


WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Barbour Griffith & Rogers, LLC (BGR), DC's top-rated Republican lobbying firm, today announced that Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill will join the firm, leading the firm's global affairs practice from the newly created position of President, Barbour Griffith & Rogers, International.

For the past eighteen months, Ambassador Blackwill has served President Bush as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Planning. Bob also served as Presidential Envoy to Iraq, and earlier, as US Ambassador to India (2001 to 2003).

According to Lanny Griffith, the CEO of BGR LLC, "We are thrilled that Ambassador Blackwill is joining our thriving firm. Bob's keen intellect and fresh perspectives on international affairs will greatly enhance our firm's already strong global practice. Bob's experience in global markets will be a huge asset for our existing clients and give us enormous new capacity to grow a dynamic international practice."

Prior to serving as Ambassador to India, Blackwill was the Belfer Lecturer in International Security at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. From 1989 to 1990, Ambassador Blackwill served as Special Assistant to President George Bush for European and Soviet Affairs, during which time he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit by the Federal Republic of Germany for his contribution to German unification. Bob spent nearly 20 years as a practicing diplomat with an impressive range of overseas postings.

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[David Zephyr]

1. Which Means That He Has Been Purchased by the Chinese Government

who already owns Haley Barbour just as the Saudis own the Bush family and James Baker.

[Cocoa]

3. another important client is the Kurdish Democratic Party

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Barbour_Griffith_%26_Rogers&printable=yes#Clients

In July 2004, the Kurdish Democratic Party retained BG&R "to ensure that Iraqi Kurdistan maintains its autonomy from Baghdad in the new Iraq Government" and for the "return of oil-rich Kirkuk, which Saddam Hussein had "Arabized" as the capital of the region, to Kurdistan."<7> (http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0716barzani.htm)

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. If only I had a photoshop program

would just have to put a brown pig nose on this guy

[sattahipdeep]

4. Carpetbaggers.

[KT2000]

5. What about BlackWELL??

Ohio's SoS should get something for all his efforts.