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"Two books, George Packer's The Assassins' Gate and L. Paul Bremer's My Year in Iraq: The
Struggle to Build a Future of Hope, written with Malcolm McConnell, are essential
for those who want to understand what went wrong. Packer's book is written
with great clarity and draws on his experience as one of The New Yorker's more
perceptive reporters. He is clearly a thorough and careful notetaker. As a result,
the people he writes about—Washington neoconservatives, CPA bureaucrats, and
ordinary Iraqis whose lives were turned upside down by decisions made elsewhere—speak
to the reader in their own voices. In analyzing the war, Packer begins with the ideologies
that shaped its architects' thinking and then brilliantly describes the unrealistic
assumptions and bureaucratic maneuvering that resulted in the US taking over Iraq with no
plan for its postwar administration. Bremer, as his title suggests, . . . ."