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...different. We never had a conference comparable to the Afghan Loya Jirga that produced a leader, Hamid Karzai, around whom the country could coalesce. We had won the war; we had the guns, the tanks, the soldiers, and the air power. We were in charge, and by God, we knew what was best. Alas, what too many people in the U.S. government were convinced would be best was an Iraqi government headed up by Ahmed Chalabi...
...What Iraq needed were Arabists and Foreign Service officers who understood the country's tribal allegiances, or who at least knew a Sunni from a Shia. What CPA seemed to be getting were people anxious to set up a Baghdad stock exchange, try out a flat-tax system, and impose other elements of a lab-school democratic- capitalist social structure. One of my officers returned from a trip to Iraq a month or two after CPA had taken over and told me, "Boss, that place runs like a graduate school seminar, none of them speaks Arabic, almost nobody's ever...
...memoir that the intelligence community estimated that this order would affect only about 1 percent of the Iraqi population. That could be taken to imply that [CIA] supported the move and thought it was a good idea, but that was definitely not the case. In fact, we knew nothing about it until de-Ba'athification was a fiat accompli. Clearly, this was a critical policy decision, yet there was no NSC Principals meeting to debate the move. As for the 1 percent number Bremer cites, he didn't ask for that estimate until the date after he issued the order...
...we’d failed it would have been hard to wake up at all.”“It also helped a lot that there was something for people who were writing blogs to talk about,” he continues. “People knew that they could always find songs; if they came to our site every month there would be four new songs that they could listen to. The collector mentality really kicked in and once people caught on to the pattern it became like a compulsion for a lot of people to constantly...
...space and the audio continued to play through the headphones.” “It damaged the wall and the floor of the gallery space and eventually it damaged itself so badly that it stopped working,” he says. “I knew that it might happen, but that kind of unpredictable nature was a part of the piece...