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Humpty Dumpty in Baghdad: how the Pentagon plans to dominate postwar Iraq. (Dispatches).

American Prospect, The,  May, 2003  by Dreyfuss, Robert

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THE PENTAGON IS RUMBLING INTO Baghdad completely unprepared to fashion a viable new Iraqi government, seemingly obsessed with installing the discredited and corrupt Ahmed Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), as the country's leader. The task force assigned the job of putting Humpty Dumpty together again after the shooting stops is woefully ill-equipped for its mission, is keeping the Department of State at arm's length, and has few regional experts and Iraq specialists aboard.

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