It was quite evident that the guys on the ground could see that policy was pointing in the wrong direction but they were powerless to affect it.

If only we could have had a copy of "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" before we wnet in. But the neocons wouldn't have paid attention even then. I don't hold to the conspiracy theory slant of "Shock doctrine", but it was clear that the neocons did view the enterprise in a certain piratical way as an opportunity to plunder both the Iraqi and US Treasury

keep to the Fen Causeway