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Published 12/14/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - A detailed history of the U.S. effort to reconstruct Iraq after Saddam Hussein's overthrow in 2003 said it failed because of "blinkered and disjointed" prewar planning, a deadly insurgency and wasteful and ill-managed contracting.
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