Archive for the 'Bremer' Category

My good pal Jack comments on the Times’ piece.

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Mr. Bush acknowledged one major failing of the early occupation of Iraq when he said of disbanding the Saddam Hussein-era military, “The policy was to keep the army intact; didn’t happen.”
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But when Mr. Draper pointed out that Mr. Bush’s former Iraq administrator, L. Paul Bremer III, had gone ahead and forced the army’s dissolution and […]

Bremer, Bribes & Braggadocio

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Bremer Paid “Ghost Employees” To Avoid “Real Trouble”
The Huffington Post Melinda Henneberger Posted February 6, 2007 08:22 PM
Paul Bremer told members of Congress today that he was aware that nonexistent “ghost employees” were on America’s payroll when he was administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in 2003 and 2004.
But because the real employees […]