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We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People Book

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We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, One diplomat's darkly humorous and ultimately scathing assault on just about everything the military and State Department have done—or tried to do—since the invasion of Iraq. The title says it all.—The New York Times Charged with rebuilding, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
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  • We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
  • Written by author Peter Van Buren
  • Published by Holt, Henry & Company, Inc., 8/21/2012
  • "One diplomat's darkly humorous and ultimately scathing assault on just about everything the military and State Department have done—or tried to do—since the invasion of Iraq. The title says it all."—The New York Times Charged with rebuilding
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Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary 3

Inhaling: Arriving in Iraq 15

A Home in the Desert 21

Unexpected Blows: Day One with My Team 32

Tribes 37

Money and Our Meth Habit 46

Caring about Trash 55

Water and Sewage 63

Democracy in Iraq: A Story of Local Politics 75

Milking the US Government 80

A Torturous Lunch 88

One Too Many Mornings 93

Haircuts and Prostitution 97

Laundry 101

A Break for Dinner 104

Basketball 109

Humanitarian Assistance 112

The Doura Art Show 117

Three Colonels 122

Some Chick Event 131

Widowed Tractors, Bees for Widows 135

Chicken Shit 140

Midcourse Correction 149

The Embassy Lawn, Where the Grass Is Always Greener 154

Economic Conference Blues 160

Spooky Dinner 165

The Day after a Day at the Embassy 171

Soldier Talk 178

Sex 186

General Anxiety 193

Waiting 199

Everyone Was Looking the Other Way 204

Promises to Keep 216

Dairy Carey 220

4-H Club Comes to Iraq 225

Checkpoints 229

Seeing the Dragon 234

Missing Him 240

What Victory Looks Like 245

Exhaling: Leaving Iraq 255

Notes 263

Acknowledgments 267


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