Politics Trumped Competence When Selecting Staff to Rebuild Iraq

[Xiahou]

If you're at all interested in how the early formation of the C.P.A. worked, I strongly recommend the book I'm reading right now, The Assassin's Gate. It's a well-sourced and deeply depressing read.

I do recall the first CPA head (a retired general who's name escapes me) being hurriedly replaced fairly early on.

So let's not get the usual "oh that's just liberal propaganda," as we seem to hear anytime someone tries to do an in-depth look at our policies that doesn't begin and end as a total endorsement of the President.

*sigh*