Reporting from Emerald City..
Talk about the gang who couldn't straight.
The emperor has no sense - Newsday.com:
Using nearly two years of reporting in the country for the Washington Post and an impeccable eye for the tragic and outrageous, Chandrasekaran unveils the occupation authority compound as a Middle East Oz, grossly out of touch with the harsh realities of the real Iraq. He draws a focused and ultimately fatal bead on the Coalition Provisional Authority, the American regime in Baghdad between April 2003 and June 2004.
The book is an eye-opening tour of ineptitude, misdirection and the perils of democracy-building, kind of like those college campus tours where the guide strides by the official sites and points out the salacious ones instead. The fleet of gleaming white Suburbans that rarely mixed with Baghdad's unruly, dirty traffic beyond the heavily fortified Green Zone. The idealistic American bureaucrats and 20-somethings, recruited through GOP connections and confined to the seven-square-mile compound. The JJ Store for Arab Photos, where CPA staffers could get their pictures taken in Arab robes and headdress. The disco, where some female staffers strutted in hot pants and heels over a Baath Party star embedded in the floor.
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