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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Hardcover)
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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Written by an assistant managing editor of the Washington Post who spent long stints in Baghdad, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says of "Emerald City": "Memo to all readers of this meticulous, uncompromising, brilliant exposé of the first year of the American occupation of Iraq: Read this on an empty stomach. The sheer volume of incompetence, arrogance and lethal factionalism described therein demands it."
Excerpts in the Washington Post reveal a level of incompetence and corruption in the Bush Adminsitration "effort" to "rebuild" Iraq that makes their lethally disastrous Hurricane Katrina performance look like an admirable success story.
With inexperienced apppointees based on nepotism and ideology, our taxpayer dollars were squandered. In fact, billions of our hard-earned dollars sent to Iraq can't even be accounted for.
As the review in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel notes, this book is a primer on how not to go about "reconstructing" a country: ""Emerald City" offers a detailed and surprisingly even-handed account (the Iraqis don't fare much better than their occupiers in this book) of the myriad fumbled attempts to restore basic security and infrastructure in a collapsed country. It might best be thought of as the "Don't" playbook required in a war kit of modern occupation forces seeking to win hearts and minds - if only to prevent retaliatory carnage on a biblical scale."
Needless to say, this is a book that the Busheviks would ban if they ever got full control over the nation. It reveals their stunning incompetence and malfeasance. It is failure on such a massive scale, it leaves you reeling.
And the neo-Con plan is to jump from nation to nation, invading them, fleecing the occupied nations, fleecing the American taxpayers, war profiteering, and then diverting the American people to the next trumped up crisis.
Bush has failed at every independent business effort in his life, until his father's friends gave him a share of a baseball team in return for him being the official greeter for the "Texas Rangers."
Bush's real Master's Degree is in a Master's of Destruction -- and "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" chronicles another one of his fiascos, on a gigantic scale.
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