Amy Goodman
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State Dept Veteran Peter Van Buren Defies US Censors to Recount Failed Iraq Reconstruction
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November 30, 2011
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8:49Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - In "We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People," State Department official Peter Van Buren provides a first-hand account of the faltering and often misguided attempts at reconstruction in Iraq undertaken by the U.S. government. Van Buren published the book after rebuffing heavy State Department pressure to redact a number of passages. Van Buren joins us to discuss the failed efforts he witnessed in Iraq and his struggle to tell his story to the world. "The State department is very much like the Mafia," Van Buren says.
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