Ties to GOP Trumped Know-How Among Staff Sent to Rebuild Iraq

And these assholes get freedom medals for their incompetence.
Ties to GOP Trumped Know-How Among Staff Sent to Rebuild Iraq - washingtonpost.com
Many of those chosen by O'Beirne's office to work for the Coalition Provisional Authority, which ran Iraq's government from April 2003 to June 2004, lacked vital skills and experience. A 24-year-old who had never worked in finance -- but had applied for a White House job -- was sent to reopen Baghdad's stock exchange. The daughter of a prominent neoconservative commentator and a recent graduate from an evangelical university for home-schooled children were tapped to manage Iraq's $13 billion budget, even though they didn't have a background in accounting.