US authority accused of ignoring allies in Iraq (Guardian)

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Source: The Guardian

US authority accused of ignoring allies in Iraq

· CPA was dysfunctional, says British official
· UK 'complicit' in failing to prepare postwar plan

Patrick Wintour, political editor
Saturday June 16, 2007
The Guardian

The US-led administration set up to run Iraq following the
invasion in 2003 was a "dysfunctional organisation" which
almost completely ignored the British, according to its
director of operations.

Andrew Bearpark, probably the Coalition Provisional
Authority's central British figure, also revealed that when
he asked for details of the plan to restore the Iraqi power
supplies, he was given a one-page piece of paper with a
list of a dozen Iraqi power stations and their potential
output, amounting to what he describes as "a wish list".
"That was the CPA plan", he said in an interview with the
Guardian.

He described Britain as "being complicit in Iraq's current
position as a failed state due to its the failure to prepare
a postwar plan."

Mr Bearpark, an advocate of an early British troop
drawdown, also backs the call for an official British inquiry
into the failure of postwar planning - a call made this
week by the Conservatives in a Commons debate, but
rejected at least for the moment by the prime minister in
waiting, Gordon Brown.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2104401,00.html

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1. That is descript

"a failed state"....Which is what it is. We might have gotten rid of a despot, but now it's Anarchy gone mad. We got rid of a 'terrorist leader' and replaced it with a terrorist state. The terrorist state is quickly becoming a terrorist region. The list of bad which has come from this is infinite.