Bush to Send Meghan O'Sullivan to Iraq

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Bush to Send Meghan O'Sullivan to Iraq
Former Top Aide Tasked to Help Iraqis Meet Benchmarks
Posted 3 hr. 35 min. ago

President Bush will be sending one of his top aides to Iraq to assist the Iraqis "meet the benchmarks that the Congress and the President expect to get passed," he announced in a press conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

Though many items of mutual concern were discussed during today's White House meeting between the Iraqi and US presidents, benchmarks appeared to have been the primary focus. Washington has been urging the Iraqis to move more aggressively on draft legislation that would address the equal distribution of oil revenue, reform the de-Baathification process, and plan for provincial elections.

O'Sullivan spent time in Baghdad early in the war, working for Jay Garner, and subsequently Paul Bremer. After returning to Washington, she joined the White House staff in October 2005, becoming Bush's top policy adviser on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan until her resignation last month.

Though O'Sullivan had said she would probably be seeking work outside the government after leaving the White House, the opportunity of the new position apparently changed her mind. President Bush says she will work directly with Ambassador Ryan Crocker, but did not detail what efforts she would undertake assisting the Iraqis to push through the pertinent legislation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan_O'Sullivan

Meghan L. O'Sullivan (born September 13, 1969)<1>, a political appointee in the administration of George W. Bush. O'Sullivan currently serves as the Special Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan.

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O'Sullivan was an aide to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and a fellow at the Brookings Institution under Richard N. Haass.

O'Sullivan has also served in the Office of Policy Planning at the State Department, where she assisted Colin Powell in developing the smart sanctions policy proposal; as an assistant to Paul Bremer in the Coalition Provisional Authority subsequent to the 2003 invasion of Iraq; and as Senior Director for Iraq at the National Security Council.

Her resignation was announced April 2, 2007, to take effect "later this spring".

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1. "move more aggressively

... on draft legislation that would address the equal distribution of oil revenue"...four years later and still no divvying up of the oil pie. How frustrating that must be.