title: Contractor Confessions: Tales from Iraq
author: Russell Blair
description: The author spent two years in Iraq as a civilian contractor working for KBR/Halliburton. Names have been changed to protect the innocent...and the not so innocent.
zlib_text: BROKEN VOWS
  Tony Blair:
  The Tragedy of Power
  TOM BOWER
  
  To Veronica
  
   
  Contents
  Title Page
  Dedication
  List of Photographs
  Introduction
   
  PART 1: New Labour Takes Charge
  1: The Beginning
  2: Uninvited Citizens
  3: Restoring a Vision
  4: The Gospel
  5: Broken Vows, Part 1
  6: The Battle Plan
  7: Old King Coal
  8: The Wall Crumbles
  9: A Government Adrift
  10: Frustration
  11: The War Project
  12: A Demon to Slaughter
  13: Saving the NHS
  14: Everything Is PR
  
  15: Clutching at Straws
  16: Class Conﬂicts
  17: Unkind Cuts
  18: The 2001 Election
   
  PART 2: A Second Chance
  19: The Same Old Tale
  20: The Blair ‘Which?’ Project
  21: Instinct and Belief
  22: Hither and Dither
  23: The Bogus Students
  24: Groundhog Day
  25: Targets and Dismay
  26: Broken Vows, Part 2
  27: Lights Out
  28: Countdown
  29: Juggling the Figures
  30: The Collapse of Baghdad
  31: Knights and Knaves
  32: Restoring Tradition
  33: Lies and Damn’d Lies
  34: Sabotage and Survival
  35: Confusion in the Ranks
  36: Managing the Mess
  37: The Devil’s Kiss
  38: Tow