"Iraqi Details 'Shocking' U.S. Missteps" RUH ROH! Allawi's in trouble now!

[in_cog_ni_to]

Iraqi Details 'Shocking' U.S. Missteps
By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent
35 minutes ago

NEW YORK - In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the U.S. occupation's "shocking" mismanagement of his country _ a performance so bad, he writes, that by 2007 Iraqis had "turned their backs on their would-be liberators."

"The corroded and corrupt state of Saddam was replaced by the corroded, inefficient, incompetent and corrupt state of the new order," Ali A. Allawi concludes in "The Occupation of Iraq," newly published by Yale University Press.

Allawi writes with authority as a member of that "new order," having served as Iraq's trade, defense and finance minister at various times since 2003. As a former academic, at Oxford University before the U.S.-British invasion of Iraq, he also writes with unusual detachment.

The U.S.- and British-educated engineer and financier is the first senior Iraqi official to look back at book length on his country's four-year ordeal. It's an unsparing look at failures both American and Iraqi, an account in which the word "ignorance" crops up repeatedly.<snip>

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[City Lights]

1. FUBARing a country is hard work!

Junior has it down to a science though.

[JeffR]

2. He's had a lot of practice:

Afghanistan, Iraq and the United States of America.

[City Lights]

3. Yup...three and counting...

x(

[subterranean]

4. As they say, the fish rots from the head down. n/t

[ingac70]

5. In other words, we outfitted them with a Republican government...

Apparently, Saddam wasn't considered inefficient nor incompetent! Same crap for Iraq, just greedy dummies at the helm instead of an asshole.