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," run by President Bush Ali A. Allawi concludes in "The Occupation of Iraq.
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. Bush has made a terrible mistake. His troops have died for nothing.
2007-04-08
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