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Article: False start; Post-war reconstruction.(in Iraq)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2003
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Bremer in, Garner out
America's first transition team has failed
POST-WAR reconstruction in Iraq is off to a dreadful start. Looters have plundered food warehouses. Convoys of World Food Programme trucks are shot at; many of the 44,000 UN distribution points have been robbed and closed. There is little clean water, no telephone system and no reliable electricity in Baghdad. Banks refuse to open. Hospitals have been stripped of medicine and ambulances seized and sold in a section of the city that American soldiers call Looterville.
Expectations may have been too high: Iraq was once a prosperous country, and people are impatient for it to be so ...
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