Imperial Life in the Emerald City - velvetfog

Audio book in 64 chapters

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
is a 2006 book by Rajiv Chandrasekaran that takes a critical
look at the civilian leadership of the American reconstruction
project in Iraq.

Centered mainly on the actions of the Coalition Provisional Authority,
within the Green Zone of Baghdad, Chandrasekaran details the absurdities,
incompetence, and bureaucratic failings which prevented a timely transfer
of power to the Iraqis and bred the growing insurgency, as well as the
idealism and willful self-delusion that prevented American leadership
from seeing the true state of affairs in Iraq.

Soon to be a major motion picture, Green Zone, starring Matt Damon.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947810/