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Article: My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope.(Book review)
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- New Zealand International Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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MY YEAR IN IRAQ The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope Author: L. Paul Bremer III Published by: Threshold Editions/HarperCollins, New York, 2006, 420pp, $34.99.
This is a fascinating memoir by one of the best, most honourable members of the lamentably ideological and blinkered Bush team: Ambassador Paul Bremer (an idealistic diplomat who has, nonetheless, worked as Managing Director for Kissinger Associates, which helps to better appreciate his ill-informed messianic zeal for 'liberation' via half-baked regime change in Iraq).
My Year in Iraq details the agonising, gruelling process by which Bremer tried, under great stress, as Coalition Provisional ...