Peter Van Buren

From a State Department insider, the first account of our blundering efforts to rebuild Iraq-a shocking and rollicking true-life tale of Americans abroad Charged with rebuilding Iraq, would you spend taxpayer money on a sports mural in Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhood to promote reconciliation through art? How about an isolated milk factory that cannot get its milk to market? Or, a pastry class training women to open cafés on bombed-out streets...