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Ex-US envoy calls Iraq policy "worst disaster since Vietnam war"

IRNA

2003/08/26

Berlin, Aug 26, IRNA -- Former American ambassador to the 
United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, called Washington`s strategy in 
Iraq the "worst foreign policy disaster since the Vietnam war", 
citing the US government`s lack of planning for Iraq`s post-war 
political order. 
"They (Americans) could not predict the nature of this war," 
Holbrooke said Tuesday in an interview with the daily Berliner 
Zeitung. 
As US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian 
Affairs, Richard Holbrooke became the chief architect of the December 
1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the Bosnian war. 
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