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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 956.7044 EAN: 9780307278838 ISBN: 0307278832 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: September 04, 2007 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: September 04, 2007 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the crucial first year of occupation pursuing goals that had little to do with the immediate needs of a postwar nation: flat taxes instead of electricity and deregulated health care instead of emergency medical supplies. In this acclaimed firsthand account, the former Baghdad bureau chief of The Washington Post gives us an intimate portrait of life inside this Oz-like bubble, which continued unaffected by the growing mayhem outside. This is a quietly devastating tale of imperial folly, and the definitive history of those early days when things went irrevocably wrong in Iraq. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Emperor is Buck NakedConspiracy to defraud the American tax payer, by diabolical war profiteering of unprecedented scope, herein becomes obvious. Only the most delusional pollyanna could still believe the precepts of this war or the spin on its aftermath, given the exposure of the bare and simple facts by this level-headed work of pure journalistic daylight. Iraq war contract awards have themselves completely exposed the truth to anyone who cares to look. No administration could possibly be so idiotic ... Read More Rating: - A Disconcerting Picture of US Out of TouchLays out some of the most obvious failures of US invasion and post-war administration in Iraq. Clearly demonstrates that policy makers were so committed to ideology that they blinded themselves to the way things were--with disastrous effect. Administrators were chosen more for partisan loyalty than proven experience, and were tragically out-of-touch with events on the ground. Rating: - A damning indictmentSince I lived for a year in Baghdad's Green Zone, I felt it was necessary for me to read what happened before I got there, under L. Paul Bremer, bureaucrat extraordinaire. That is why I recently found myself reading Imperial Life in the Emerald City, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. To say that the Bush Administration and its chosen Iraq occupation overlords made poor choices during and immediately after the invasion of that country would be an understatement so vast that I have no words to ... Read More Rating: - reads like a novelThis is an excellent book that stands out among the host of books that have been written about the Iraq war. The thing that makes it stand out is that it reads like a novel. A scary novel of course. It details the fiasco that has unfolded in Iraq due to poor planning, poor leadership, and the desire to reward loyalty over competency. Rating:  - Good Introductory BookI agree with some of the reviewers below who stated that this is a good introductory book. Its well written and very easy to read. That being said, it doesn't contain nearly the level of detail as other books, written by both "sides" (i.e., Bremer's memoir or Ferguson's No End in Sight). There's not a whole lot of analysis and it seemed that this book focused a lot more on food platters and young staffers than the more substantive issues. I mean, yes, it would have been better ... Read More 
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