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No Plan, No Peace

Episode 2: The Inside Story of Iraq's Descent into Chaos

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One East MidlandsLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

John Ware relates the inside story of how the British and American governments invaded Iraq but had no plan for what happened next - how to bring peace and democracy to a country of 26 million with no history of either. One former British general who was part of the reconstruction team described the failure by Washington and London to plan properly for the peace as 'snatching defeat from the jaws of victory'. Show less

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