Astonishing Baker saga

You can't miss this. It really rattled the cage.

Major kudos to Naomi Klein. Her recent breathtaking exposé on Year Zero planning for Iraq is essential for understanding our recent history. (Klein interview here.)

See also: Punitive measures on Iraq contracts put Bush in clown suit and Submerging Iraq found here.

Addendum: Definitely re-read Jim Henry's fine December 2003 examination in Submerging Markets of how James Baker contributed to the debt mess Iraq worked itself into during the 1980s. Now that Naomi Klein reveals, in The Nation story cited above, Baker's failure to help Iraq out of it as was his charge last December from President Bush, we have a plaintive reply dashing Jim's hope that this "Baker Plan" be "more successful".