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04/20/2004 Archived Entry: "Here it is..."
Here it is... The article that was mentioned last night in Editor & Publisher. 'Blockbuster?' I'm not so sure. But it is a pretty damning evaluation of the situation, especially coming from a highly-placed official who has drunk the 'Transform the Middle East' kool-aid. Yet the memo is gloomy in most other respects, portraying a country mired in dysfunction and corruption, overseen by a CPA that "handle(s) an issue like six-year-olds play soccer: Someone kicks the ball and one hundred people chase after it hoping to be noticed, without a care as to what happens on the field." But it is particularly pointed on the subject of cronyism and corruption within the Governing Council, the provisional Iraqi government subordinate to the CPA whose responsibilities include re-staffing Iraq's government departments. "In retrospect," the memo asserts, "both for political and organizational reasons, the decision to allow the Governing Council to pick 25 ministers did the greatest damage. Not only did we endorse nepotism, with men choosing their sons and brothers-in-law; but we also failed to use our prerogative to shape a system that would work ... our failure to promote accountability has hurt us." Worth a read.
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