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This is CBS I Am the World, I'm John Bachelor, a stranger in your own city.

I've built a HODS new book, travels in the Middle East long war. This is the Iraq war before and after the American present.

It is now 2003, 2004. Our protagonist, Ray, is a journalist, a photojournalist, he has a camera.

He's attached to journalism, English language journalism coming out of Iraq, he's acted as a translator.

But it is now very much a war as observed by a keen member of the Baghdad city.

In other words, this is a Baghdad resident who sees his own city transforming itself with American presence after the war, the looting after the war, the great relief people concerned about the future, the lack of American preparation, the blunder of dismissing the army, the blunder of driving out the bath party.

So there was no structure whatsoever and the reentry of exiles. And I'm keen on this for eighth because it's a story that we see repeated again and again through history.

When the exiles come back, it's as if they are frozen in time. They remember a city they left.

What did it mean for Iraq that the exiles rushed back in? Many of them would become leaders in the American version of Iraqi governance.

John, this is a very, very accurate description. It's people who went back to a city and they were frozen in time. So when they left Iraq some in the 50s, some 60s, others in the 70s, they lived in exile in cocoons of paranoia because the regime was hunting them.

And the Iraqi took with them was very different from the Iraq that they came back to. That Iraq they came back to hard suffered under the regime for 20, 30 years, had lived through the sanctions.

The cleave between the exiles and the Iraqis cannot be more emphasized. Many of those exiles were, you know, aligned themselves with Iran during the Iraq Iran war.

And even for I think for most of the Iraqis, they saw that as a treason if and they were some of them were taking part in the war against the Iraq itself.

So so they came some of them wanted to avenge grievances and they saw all the Iraqis as complicit in these grievances.

They also because they grew up in exile. So they had very close sectarian but also very paranoid way of looking into the society and all.

I mean, some of these political organization evolved like the communist say in the 19th century or the early 20th century in tightly net selves, paranoid fearing the armor. So they came to Iraq, but only they didn't know Iraq, but the Iraqis themselves didn't trust them.

But the exiles had one trunk card, which is the Americans, the Americans were no conduct inside Iraq, only listen to the exiles, Ahmad Treli, the rest, even people like who became anti-American in the end in the beginning, they were really the allies of the Americans.

So the Americans not only had this did not do that homework, they didn't know the country they were going to disbanded all the security services and alike themselves with the exiles and listen to the exiles as the voice of Iraq, the voice of Iraqis. And that's where the second disaster takes place.

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