Iraq: Another free market failure?

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03/31/2007 Mises Wire Jeffrey A. Tucker

This is one you might not expect, one that will leave you speechless.

From the NYT review of Doherty's new book on libertarianism, we find that Bush has been using a "free-market approach to rebuilding Iraq" but that this "has proven disastrous."

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