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I don’t really expect any of our readers to go through all these documents, but I think it’s important to post them anyway: They are documents from The Future of Iraq Project, spearheaded by the U.S. State Department in 2001, completed in May, 2003, and then virtually ignored since.

Russ Kick from The Memory Hole filed a Freedom of Information request in 2003 to obtain the documents, and the request was filled this year.

Interesting to see that this initiative, which cost $5-million for the U.S. government to carry out, largely involved Iraqi expatriates, with assistance from foreigners. Can anyone shed light on what caused it to be so widely ignored?

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