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Article: The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace.(Book review)
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- Middle East Quarterly
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- June 22, 2007
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The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. By Ali A. Allawi. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.518 pp. $28.
There is no shortage of accounts by U.S. and British diplomats, military officers, and political appointees of Iraq's occupation, but the voice of Iraqi participants has been nearly silent. In The Occupation of Iraq, Allawi, an activist in the Iraqi opposition who returned to his country after liberation to become, in succession, Iraq's minister of trade, defense, and finance, remedies this. The result is a product far superior to that provided by instant experts and journalists.
Allawi begins his narrative in the Iran-Iraq war ...