Babylon by Bus - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Donovan Webster, Jeff Neumann, Ray LeMoine, Jeremy Davidson (Narrator) Subtitle: Or, the true story of two friends who gave up their valuable franchise selling YANKEES SUCK T-shirts at Fenway to find meaning and adventure in Iraq, where they became employed by the occupation in jobs for which they lacked qualification and witnessed much that amazed and disturbed them — This all-access, inside-out view of what the Am... more »erican occupation of Iraq really looks like on the ground is the story of two young Americans who went to Baghdad without any real plan and discovered they weren't the only ones. Underqualified but ingenious, Ray and Jeff found work with the Coalition Provisional Authority providing humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people amid an appalling atmosphere of corruption, incompetence, and horror. Gritty and irreverent, this is a wild ride inside the Red Zone and a strikingly original portrait of the real Iraq.
The true story of two young American men who came to Baghdad without a plan, were recruited into an occupation that knew the feeling, and witnessed enough corruption, confusion, and brutality to fill the pages of a very good book.
I enjoyed this story of two guys going to Iraq and getting involved with humanitarian aid work there. The frustrations with bureacracy and the government, the mass confusion, and some surprising successes made it well worth the time.