More enlightening information on a poorly planned and executed program under the Bush administration, that is now (and apparently always was) FUBAR.

Broad account of an unpublished federal report on the pathetically incompetent management and administration of the alleged American reconstruction of Iraq. The selected information gives a woeful picture of administrative incompetence. Left unmentioned are the equally pathetic results of the efforts, and any curiosity on what became of the money--more than $100 billion--we threw at the project.

This was difficult to rate because I found it interesting and it opened up some new topics. However, it did not cover some areas I've read about in other accounts. It did not cover fairly clear cases of outright fraud, or the American companies who refused to work with Iraqi people on the ground who had been working in the damaged water, sanitation, and power plants for many years. Whether it's because neither of those issues were in the report, or that this article chose not to explore them is not clear. Since these issues have been well documented for years, it is a fairly glaring lack if the report did not cover them. And a competent journalist should have pointed it out.

The report and the article on the report cover a number of blunders, but miss key top level points. The neocon objective was not to rebuild Iraq, but, in the frame of Naomi Klein, to reinvent Iraq as a test tube laboratory experiment of an unfettered free trade nation. The report ignores the obvious that it was not job for the military; they destroy, not build. The article also ignores the major idiocy of disbanding the whole Iraq military. The story is a good read for what it does disclose.

It's a good article retelling what everyone knows. The incompetence Of the Bush Administration is like watching a Three Stooges movie.