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Book Cover by Chandrasekaran, Rajiv
Surreal is one way to describe the Green Zone occupation government centered in Saddam?s former Baghdad palace following the American blitz that put the dictator on the run. Bremer?s Bubble would be another. This, according to Chandrasekaran, was where the neoconservative dream of a democratic Iraq was to be realized. The problem, as Chandrasekaran sees it, was that the great plan was to be implemented by inept political hacks ? people who qualified by, among other things, having applied at the Heritage Foundation or having given the ?right? answer to the question of Roe v. Wade. Bush loyalists to a man, with few frustrated exceptions, they made one bad move after another, and their stunning insensitivity to the ancient community surrounding them proved the profound arrogance that ignorance breeds. They also inadvertently insured, according to Chandrasekaran, that the Iraq mission truly was not -- and would not ever be -- accomplished.
- reviewed by Jim, Main Library, PLCMC