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http://watchingamerica.com/News/224287/the-ambassadors-record-stripped-bare/For Iraqis, Paul Bremer became camel's urine, dragging the country back to a state of lawlessness and paving the way for the masking of the Iraqi political class.
The Ambassadors Record Stripped Bare
Al-Khaleej, UAE
By Farah Al-Mush'al
Translated By Joseph McBirnie
21 October 2013
Edited by Robert OConnor
Iraqis remember the image of Paul Bremer resembling a pane of glass, without shame or the slightest bit of warmth or conscience.
For Iraqis, Paul Bremer became camel's urine, dragging the country back to a state of lawlessness and paving the way for the masking of the Iraqi political class!
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Paul Bremer then continued his advice and remarks to the ambassador to help him learn to deal with those people, concluding:
You will find them proficient in cruel and empty speech, rendering the listener confused. They speak this way with every nationality and culture and are unable to be direct even among their closest companions. With their empty intellects and political ineptitude, you will not find any among them who has a clear or acceptable solution to the problem; they continually place their partisanship and temperament ahead of all considerations of the national good. Knowing full well that they are isolated and receive no consideration from their own people because their citizens who took power during the interim transitional government have demonstrated that they are little more than expendable material.*
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(Paul Bremer) The Ambassador’s Record Stripped Bare (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Oct 2013
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delrem
(9,688 posts)1. And I thought I knew all the ways the fucker was a prick.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)4. I've always thought he was a slimey piece of shit!
deminks
(11,014 posts)2. Where are the missing billions, Mr. Bremer?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/mar/20/usa.iraq
Camel's urine is too kind.
BTW, in a different setting, he could be talking about GOPers.
Camel's urine is too kind.
BTW, in a different setting, he could be talking about GOPers.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)3. what a fucking asshole