Where to start?

Report Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders
By JAMES GLANZ and T. CHRISTIAN MILLER
Published: December 13, 2008
NYT
BAGHDAD — An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society and infrastructure.

The article is worth a read!

Where to start?

First, why "unpublished"?
These are OUR tax dollars at work. This is OUR Government!
Why aren't we allowed to read the report?

Next... "Our MBA President" comes to mind.
What management geniuses are being turned out by Harvard Business School?

This is so wrong on so many levels that it's difficult to know where to begin.

In previous posts I've noted some of the high-profile rebuilding failures - Laura's state-of-the-art Children's Hospital in Basra comes to mind.
Others have done a much more thorough job investigating the massive contractual failures.

I don't envy President-elect Obama.

It'll take MY country years - perhaps decades - to recover from the W virus.

Can Iraq be put right?

Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses
And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!

I doubt it.

Stop the madness!