Can't improve on this (from MENAFN:

Iraq reconstruction -- state in, Pentagon out
Jordan Times - 10/01/2006

After a thousand days of widely acknowledged failure in the job of rebuilding Iraq, the department of defence has quietly been relieved of that responsibility, with the State Department taking over as America's lead reconstruction agency and coordinating the work of all other government departments.

While supporters of the policies of President George W. Bush dismiss the change as an administrative adjustment, others suggest it is symbolic of a decades-old turf battle between the two departments, and the administration's increasing frustration with the reconstruction performance of the DOD and its contractors.

They also point to the switch as an example of how the president goes about making policy changes in Iraq: Exhorting the public to "stay the course" while changing it without fanfare.

Yet further proof the administration lives in the Land of Oz.