Sunday, December 14, 2008

Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders

BAGHDAD — An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society and infrastructure

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/world/middleeast/14reconstruct.html?_r=1&hp

By JAMES GLANZ and T. CHRISTIAN MILLER

No comments: