Leaving Ms. Ledeen out of it, how well did the CPA do?

According to a poll taken by the CPA itself near the end of its run, confidence in the CPA was just over 10%, while 92% of the Iraqi population thought of foreign troops as occupiers. Clearly, something went very wrong with the occupation. The GAO report on Iraq,

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04902r.pdf

gives any number of examples.

See also this story from the WaPo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26310-2004Jul3.html