http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54294-2004Jun19.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/2mx69
The Washington Post tomorrow begins a three-part series on the Iraqi occupation. The links above (requires free registration) will let you read the first one, of which the short version is:
"It's been all downhill since May 2003."
No, really. It's a catalogue of every mistake that the Department of Defense (which unites the CPA and the Army under "superb" leadership) has made since the statue fell in Firdos Square, every opportunity squandered. The article is quite long, and if there's a good word for the conduct of the Coalition Provisional Authority in it, it's a lonely one. One reads it and gets a whiff of the pessimissim that wafts from objective reports from Baghdad and Arab Iraq. New, to me, a close follower of the occupation news, is the revelation that the occupation has recently been marked by US civilian administration-uniformed service relationships that are described as "poisonous."