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Article: Inside the green zone: a former CPA advisor details just how dysfunctional the Iraq occupation was.(On Political Books)(Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)(Book Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- September 1, 2005
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Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq By Larry Diamond Times Books, $29.50
In various Washington watering holes this summer, one of the favorite topics of dyspeptic discussion among conservative think tankers and political operatives was this book by Larry Diamond, which presented a scathing critique of the Bush administration's mismanagement of post-invasion Iraq. Yes, they admitted, Diamond was hand-picked by Condoleezza Rice for duty as a senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority, but didn't he work in the Clinton administration? Sure, he spent time on the ground in Baghdad, but only for a ...