Even insiders know it’s messed up.

Jason Vest writes about the disturbing contents of a CPA memo in the Boston Phoenix: Bad days ahead. “But according to a closely held Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) memo written in early March, the reality isn’t so rosy. Iraq’s chances of seeing democracy succeed, according to the memo’s author – a US government official detailed to the CPA, who wrote this summation of observations he’d made in the field for a senior CPA director – have been severely imperiled by a year’s worth of serious errors on the part of the Pentagon and the CPA, the US-led multinational agency administering Iraq.”