Andrew Natsios

Andrew Natsios is well known liar in the Bush administration. He has said it would only take US tax payers 1.7 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq because the rest could be recovered from sales of Iraqi oil. i who has served in a number of Massachusetts and high level federal government positions. From 2001 to 2005 he has served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and was appointed as Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance and Special Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sudan. In December 2005, Natsios announced his resignation from USAID to join the faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University in January 2006. As of 2006, he is the Special Envoy to Sudan, focusing specifically on Darfur.^[1] Andrew Natsios, from USAID.gov website, public domain File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Andrew Natsios, from USAID.gov website, public domain File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ... ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United States Agency for International Development (or USAID) is the US government organization responsible for most non-military foreign aid. ... The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (commonly abbreviated SFS) is a school within Georgetown University in Washington, DC, United States. ... Georgetown University is a private university in the United States, located in Georgetown, a neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is both the oldest Roman Catholic and oldest Jesuit university in the United States, having been founded on January 23, 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ... Darfur (Arabic دار فور, meaning home of the Fur) is a region of far western Sudan, bordering the Central African Republic, Libya, and Chad. ...

Natsios is the author of numerous articles on foreign policy and humanitarian emergencies, as well as the author of two books: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1997), and The Great North Korean Famine (U.S. Institute of Peace, 2001). The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a Washington, D.C.-based foreign policy think tank. ... The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan federal institution created by Congress to promote the prevention, management, and peaceful resolution of international conflicts. ...

Education

Natsios received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and his Masters of Public Administration at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Georgetown University is a private university in the United States, located in Georgetown, a neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is both the oldest Roman Catholic and oldest Jesuit university in the United States, having been founded on January 23, 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll. ... The Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree is a professional masters degree that provides training in public policy and project/program implementation (more recently known as public management). ... John F. Kennedy School of Government The John F. Kennedy School of Government is a public policy school and one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

Career

Natsios served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1975 to 1987. He also was chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee for seven years. From 1987 to 1989, he was executive director of the Northeast Public Power Association in Milford, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of Massachusetts. ...   Milford is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. ...

In 1986, Natsios introduced legislation to repeal the Massachusetts Teachers' Oath, a product of the 1930s that remained law in the Commonwealth even after the Supreme Judicial Court invalidated the law in 1967. The legislation passed without opposition. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Massachusetts Teachers Oath was a loyalty oath required to teach in Massachusetts. ... The Supreme Judicial Court is the highest judicial body in Massachusetts, akin to the Supreme Court in other juridictions. ...

He was director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance at USAID from 1989 to 1991 and assistant administrator for the Bureau for Food and Humanitarian Assistance (now the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance) from 1991 to January 1993.

A 23-year veteran of the U.S. Army Reserves, Natsios retired in 1995 with the rank of lieutenant colonel after having served in the Gulf War. The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... In the U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps, a lieutenant colonel is a commissioned officer superior to a major and inferior to a colonel. ... Combatants UN Coalition Republic of Iraq Commanders Norman Schwarzkopf Saddam Hussein Strength 660,000 360,000 Casualties 345 dead, 1,000 wounded 25,000 dead, 75,000 wounded The Gulf War (1990–1991) (also called the Persian Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, or Second Gulf War) was a conflict between...

From 1993 to 1998, Natsios was vice president of World Vision U.S. He was secretary for administration and finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from March 1999 to April 2000. And he was chairman and chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority from April 2000 to March 2001, where he took over responsibility for managing Boston's controversial Big Dig (even though he had twice voted against it as a state representative) after significant cost overruns and gained notoriety for cutting costs and lobbying against further federal funding. World Vision, founded in the United States in 1950, is an international Christian relief and development organization whose goal is working for the well being of all people, especially children. ... Massachusetts Turnpike logo. ... Big Dig is the unofficial name of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T), a megaproject to reroute the Central Artery (Interstate 93), the chief controlled-access highway through the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, into a 3. ...

In May 2001, he was sworn in as the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In 2004, President Bush appointed him Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance and Special Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sudan. Natsios resigned from USAID on January 14, 2006.^[2] President Bush appointed him Special Envoy for Darfur in 2006.^[1] USAID logo The United States Agency for International Development (or USAID) is the U.S. government organization responsible for most non-military foreign aid. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... Darfur (Arabic دار فور, meaning home of the Fur) is a region of far western Sudan, bordering the Central African Republic, Libya, and Chad. ...

Iraq Reconstruction

On April 23, 2003, Natsios appeared on Nightline in his capacity as administrator of USAID (the lead agency responsible for rebuilding the infrastructure of Iraq) to describe the Bush administration's plan for the reconstruction of Iraq. He denied that the effort would be comparable to the Marshall Plan by claiming that the rebuilding would be mainly financed by international donations and Iraqi oil revenues, saying: "But the American part of this will be 1.7 billion. We have no plans for any further-on funding for this." ^[3] The Washington Post reported in December of 2003 that the Bush administration had removed the transcript of this interview from the USAID site.^[4] The Post noted that Natios's figure was by then known to be a gross understatement. Nightline is a late-night hard news program broadcast by ABC in the United States, and has a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. ... This article regards the 2003 invasion of iraq. ... Map of Cold-War era Europe showing countries that received Marshall Plan aid. ... ...

Family

A native of Holliston, Massachusetts, Natsios and his wife, Elizabeth, have three children, Emily, Alexander, and Philip.   Holliston is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. ...

References

1. ^ ^a b President Bush Addresses United Nations General Assembly. Retrieved on 2006-09-19.
2. ^ Top U.S. Foreign Aid Official Steps Down. Retrieved on 2006-09-19.
3. ^ USAID: Assistance for Iraq. Retrieved on 2006-09-19.
4. ^ White House Web Scrubbing. Washington Post. Retrieved on 2006-09-19.

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External links

• USAID bio
• Official Website of the United States Agency for International Development
• Natsios and the Big Dig
• "Project Iraq Interview"

• Breaking the Silence, Newsweek, March 22, 2006