They called it “rebuilding Iraq,” and Peter van Buren knows a lot about what went wrong — he’s a career State Department foreign service officer who spent a year there on a Provincial Reconstruction Team. I spoke with him recently on KPFK-FM in Los Angeles.
It says here you speak Japanese, Mandarin, and some Korean – why did the State Department send you to Iraq?
Along with the WMD’s, there was another misunderstanding . . .
. . . continued at TheNation.com HERE