author, 'We Meant Well'
24-year veteran of the US State Department and author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, which made him the subject of a whistle-blower investigation
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Peter Van Buren
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FROM Peter Van Buren
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