CPA Official: We Blew It

A former CPA Advisor - Larry Diamond - looks back at the CPA's failures in Iraq:

"Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his senior civilian deputies rejected every call for a much larger commitment and made it very clear, despite their disingenuous promises to give the military "everything" it asked for, that such requests would not be welcome...

... inside the thick walls of Saddam's old presidential palace where the CPA was headquartered, such suggestions fell on deaf ears. Public debate over the interim constitution was abruptly terminated..."

The article is full of the usual US Govt. lies like "now that Iraqis are in charge of their own future..." but makes interesting reading nonetheless.