The whole question of the preservation of pre-invasion Iraqi records is a very difficult one, and specialiusts in the area have been trying to find out whether any pre-invasion records survive (though the Afghan situation is significantly worse than the Iraqi one). While no straight answers have emerged from the occupation authorities (is this in any way surprising), it seems that most government records were destroyed or looted or merely trashed by the occupation forces (though you might find some among the other Iraqi plunder on e$cam?). We have to remember that the only reason we have extensive and well-organized archives from the Third Reich was the plan to have war crimes trials; there was no such plan for trials in Iraq, just plans for executions. Far beyond our narrow phaleristic interests, this is a tragedy for future scholars attempting to write any history of Iraq in the second half of the 20th century. (Not to discuss the looting of museums and so on.) But, then, invaders and occupiers have never been good friends to history. Me? Yes, retired. Making the transition to full time research and writing, which is nice, and to a much-reduced income, which isn't nice.