I was scapegoat for Bush, Bremer claims

[bemildred]

Some of this is really choice:

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Mr Bremer, a career diplomat, also attacks the US's allies, including Britain, for being "weak-kneed" and getting "cold feet" over plans to arrest the militant Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

In the memoir, titled My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope, Mr Bremer says he sent Mr Rumsfeld a copy of a report by a respected thinktank that estimated 500,000 troops would be needed to stabilise Iraq, but the defence secretary did not respond. Mr Rumsfeld also failed to respond to his recommendation in May 2004 to add 30,000 troops to the 160,000 in Iraq at the time.

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In a passage that reiterates his claim, Mr Bremer rounds on Spanish forces for failing to support US troops under fire in Najaf. "They are sitting in tanks around the compound and doing nothing," he wrote, quoting from notes he made at the time. "It's a perfect outrage - I call it the 'coalition of the not-at-all-willing'."

In the book, Mr Bremer says the Pentagon was guilty of "institutional inertia" and blames Mr Rumsfeld and other military leaders for being determined to reduce US troop levels even in the face of the growing insurgency. "We've become the worst of all things: an ineffective occupier," he says he told Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser.

Guardian UK

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. He had better watch it, or there will be no more cushy

jobs with BFEE, and certainly no more photo ops with brown boots and a blue suit!

[caledesi]

8. * doesn't know Paul Bremer, Jack Abramoff and Kenny Boy....

The list is growing...pretty soon he won't know Laura.



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[rodeodance]

13. so far the women have not turned on him (karen, condi, Harriet, etc).

[otohara]

2. Wasn't That Medal Supposed To Shut Him Up?

for life? Dimson must be very angry about this.

[caledesi]

6. Notice how Bremer finally "grew a pair" AFTER he got paid. nt

[LynnTheDem]

3. "We've become the worst of all things: an ineffective occupier,"

"We've become the worst of all things: an ineffective occupier,"

That's the "worst"??!

INVADER of innocent nations.

KILLER of innocent men, women, children & babies.

TORTURER.

WAR-PROFITEER.

GULAGS...RENDITIONS...

And the right says they're the party of morality??! :rofl:

[spindrifter]

4. It's quite amusing when the help

steals the silver, isn't it *?

[bemildred]

5. Really does not know his place does he?

You get the sense that he thought he was doing them all a favor by condescending to work with them.

[IndianaGreen]

7. It was Bremer who fired the entire Iraqi army and police

sending thousands of armed men to their homes without a job.

[bemildred]

9. Mr. Bremer says:

"He also defended his decision to disband the Iraqi army, often cited as one of the main reasons for the rise of the insurgency as it put out on the street a mass of trained but disgruntled men, saying most Iraqi units had disbanded in the wake of the invasion anyway and a recall would have ended up with a largely Sunni force."

Notice the non-explaining explanation.

[UpInArms]

10. So when will this associate of Kissinger return the Medal of Freedom

that he was awarded?

Bush Honors Tenet, Franks, Bremer

(AP) President Bush awarded the nation's highest civilian honor Tuesday to three men central to his Iraq policy, saying they had played "pivotal roles in great events."

Mr. Bush presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to retired Gen. Tommy Franks, who oversaw combat in Afghanistan and the initial invasion of Iraq, former CIA Director George Tenet and former Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer.

<snip>

Bremer was the top civilian U.S. official in postwar Iraq, overseeing the transfer of power to an interim Iraqi government in June. "For 14 months Jerry Bremer worked day and night in difficult and dangerous conditions to stabilize the country, to help its people rebuild and to establish a political process that would lead to justice and liberty," Mr. Bush said.

<snip>

Bremer tried to calm that controversy by saying he had constantly supported the president's strategy in Iraq.

...more...

[acmavm]

11. It just dawned on me what bush**s real talent is. Finding the most

corrupt and incompetent assholes in this country and appointing them to high and sensitive government positions.

Most people would have to 'work' real hard to find this many dipshits, psychopaths, and two-legged freakshows. bush** has a real feel for the process. Bet he can (and probably does) do it in his sleep.

[rodeodance]

12. Mr. B. --you did the biddings of BushCo--you are now selling a book to

look good. you are a little man hired by a little man.

[cliss]

14. This is great.

I love it when they turn on each other because they always divulge things. They give us juicy details about how it REALLY is, or what really happened.

L. Paul Bremer is an incompetent fool. Bush only gave him the job because he felt that he would do his bidding. That's all. Nothing else needed, but to do as he was told and be loyal.

I'm almost tempted to go out and buy his book. There might be more juicy dirt in there about Bush!:smoke:

[antonialee839]

15. Well then, why isn't Mutley giving back that medal?