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Jonathan Steele's extract from his book Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq »

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The Bush administration's hostility to Jaafari was based mainly on frustration. Security in Iraq was manifestly not improving, so the Americans decided to blame the chaos on the Iraqis. And what better target than the man who was nominally in charge?

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