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Imperial life in the emerald city inside Iraq's green zone

The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the crucial first year of occupation pursuing goals that had little to do with the immediate needs of a postwar nation: flat taxes instead of electricity and deregulated health care instead of emergency medical supplies. In this acclaimed firsthand account, the former Baghdad bureau chief of The Washington Post gives us an intimate portrait of life inside this Oz-like bubble, which continued unaffected by the growing mayhem outside. This is a quietly devastating tale of imperial folly, and the definitive history of those early days when things went irrevocably wrong in Iraq. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • "Inside Iraq's green zone"
  • "Inside Iraq's green zone"@en
  • "Green zone"
  • "Green zone"@en
  • "Stēn prasinē zōnē tēs Vagdatēs"
  • "Vida imperial en la ciudad esmeralda"
  • "Dentro de la zona verde de Bagdad"
  • "Américains à Bagdad"

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  • "The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the crucial first year of occupation pursuing goals that had little to do with the immediate needs of a postwar nation: flat taxes instead of electricity and deregulated health care instead of emergency medical supplies. In this acclaimed firsthand account, the former Baghdad bureau chief of The Washington Post gives us an intimate portrait of life inside this Oz-like bubble, which continued unaffected by the growing mayhem outside. This is a quietly devastating tale of imperial folly, and the definitive history of those early days when things went irrevocably wrong in Iraq. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "Presents a revealing look at life in Baghdad's Green Zone, the headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq, criticizing the follies and foibles of L. Paul Bremer in the invasion and reconstruction of Iraq."
  • "Presents a revealing look at life in Baghdad's Green Zone, the headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq, criticizing the follies and foibles of L. Paul Bremer in the invasion and reconstruction of Iraq."@en
  • "Finalist for the National Book Award, this is the startling portrait of an Oz-like place where a vital aspect of our government's folly in Iraq played out. In this unprecedented account, the Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us with him into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq. In this bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competed with the distractions of a Little America were a half-dozen bars stocked with cold beer, a disco where women showed up in hot pants, a shopping mall, and a parking lot filled with shiny new SUV's, much of it run by Halliburton. The country is put into the hands of inexperienced twentysomethings chosen for their Republican Party loyalty. Ignoring what Iraqis say they want or need, the team pursues irrelevant neoconservative solutions and pie-in-the-sky policies instead of rebuilding looted buildings and restoring electricity. Their almost comic initiatives anger the locals and fuel the insurgency. Most Iraqis were barred from entering the Emerald City for fear they would blow it up."
  • "Finalist for the National Book Award, this is the startling portrait of an Oz-like place where a vital aspect of our government's folly in Iraq played out. In this unprecedented account, the Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief, Raviv Chandrasekaran, takes us with him into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq. In this bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competed with the distractions of a Little America were a half-dozen bars stocked with cold beer, a disco where women showed up in hot pants, a shopping mall, and a parking lot filled with shiny new SUV's, much of it run by Halliburton. The country is put into the hands of inexperienced twentysomethings chosen for their Republican Party loyalty. Ignoring what Iraqis say they want or need, the team pursues irrelevant neoconservative solutions and pie-in-the-sky policies instead of rebuilding looted buildings and restoring electricity. Their almost comic initiatives anger the locals and fuel the insurgency. Most Iraqis were barred from entering the Emerald City for fear they would blow it up."

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  • "Imperial life in the Emerald city : inside Iraq's green zone"
  • "Imperial life in the Emerald City : inside Iraq's green zone"
  • "Dans la zone verte : les Américains à Bagdad"
  • "Imperial Life in the Emerald City. Inside Iraq's Green Zone"
  • "Imperial life in the emerald city inside Iraq's green zone"
  • "Imperial life in the emerald city inside Iraq's green zone"@en
  • "Dans la zone verte : les américains à Bagdad"
  • "Den grønne zone : en reportage om USA's katastrofale administration af Irak"@da
  • "Dans la Zone verte les américains à Bagdad"
  • "Imperial life in the emerald city : inside Iraq's green zone"
  • "Imperial life in the emerald city : inside Iraq's green zone"@en
  • "Inside Iraq's green zone"@en
  • "Imperial life in the emerald city : inside Bagdad's green zone"
  • "Vida imperial en la ciudad esmeralda : dentro de la zona verde de Bagdad"
  • "Imperial Life in the Emerald City : Inside Iraq's Green Zone"
  • "Vida imperial en la ciudad Esmeralda dentro de la Zona Verde de Bagdad"@es
  • "Ē smaragdenia polē : stēn prasinē zōnē tēs Vagdatēs"
  • "La zona verde"

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