Posted on 06/30/2003 10:45:45 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:04:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The postwar Iraqi souffle never rose. There were too many cooks and the recipe was a potpourri of bad planning, duck soup and pie in the sky. The first assistant chef to quit the Iraqi scullery was Timothy Carney, a former U.S. ambassador with decades of experience in post-conflict zones. He was also the first to blow the whistle on Operation Iraqi Freedom's "grievous" flaws, namely the fingers-all-thumbs blueprint for a country liberated from 35 years of brutal, bloody dictatorship.
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