US post-transition legacy in Iraq will be negative, ex-adviser laments

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/us_iraq_transition

The US occupation of Iraq (news - web sites) will leave a negative legacy at the June 30 handover of power, due to a series of compounded strategic mistakes, a former adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority wrote.

"Because of a long catalog of strategic and tactical blunders, the United States has failed to come anywhere near meeting the postwar expectations of Iraqis," Larry Diamond, who worked as a senior adviser to the authority, wrote in the Los Angeles Times.


"It now seems clear that the occupation will leave a mixed, and on balance negative, record when the Americans hand over power," he said.

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. no shit?

gee, i thought everything was going swell