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To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (40257)10/31/2005 2:45:29 AM
From: CalculatedRisk  Respond to of 116555
 
Financial Times: US ‘had no policy’ in place to rebuild Iraq
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The US government had “no comprehensive policy or regulatory guidelines” in place for staffing the management of postwar Iraq, according to the top government watchdog overseeing the country’s reconstruction.
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While the most successful post-conflict reconstruction effort in US history – the reconstruction of Japan and Germany following the second world war – began being planned in the months after the US entered the war, Mr Bowen found that “systematic planning” for the post-hostilities period in Iraq was “insufficient in both scope and implementation”.