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To: LindyBill who wrote (132189)8/13/2005 8:46:16 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 793778
 
The New York Times
August 14, 2005
A Nation in Blood and Ink
By DEXTER FILKINS

I go back and forth in my estimation of Filkins but, whatever I think of his abilities, this is, by far, the bleakest Iraqi piece of his I've read. And perhaps the bleakest the New York Times has published. John Burns' pieces in recent weeks have begun to approximate this, but nothing nearly this stark.

I'm reading Larry Diamond's Squandered Victory. I recommend it. Not as highly as Peter Galbraith's pieces in The New York Review of Books. Or Tony Judt's for that matter. But as an insider's account of Bremer's period as the viceroy in Iraq, it's readable, specific, and educational.
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