Word: bremer
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...international community must now focus on the future of Iraq because, although we opposed the war, America now has a real opportunity—or rather, responsibility—to improve the lives of the Iraqi people. And President Bush and his civilian administrator, J. Paul Bremer, are squandering that opportunity in the face of growing hostility from Iraqi civilians to Western administration of the country. The March 8 signing of an interim constitution makes Iraq on paper one of the most liberal states in the Middle East, granting a number of economic and social rights most Arabs can only...
...business smarts, say those who are here. Of the $18.6 billion in reconstruction money approved by Congress, about $10.2 billion will be contracted out by July in tenders, much of it probably going to companies that are not yet here, according to the American administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer. The entrepreneurs on the ground say the know-how they have developed through these hair-raising months will give them a hugely valuable edge over latecomers. Despite anti-U.S. sentiments among some Iraqis, most are hungry for things American after years of living under the embargo and being barred...
...BREMER: The way things go around here, a little boredom will be welcome...
...BREMER: I really am planning to retire this time. I think this will have worn me out sufficiently for the rest of my life...
...decided to divide our coverage into a two-week series. This week we take an in-depth look at the Bush Administration's exit strategy, which keeps shifting as the realities on the ground change. Reporter Vivienne Walt interviewed Coalition Provisional Authority administrator L. Paul Bremer, and reporter Stephan Faris gave accounts of rising frustration among Iraq's Shi'ites and of the bombings that killed scores of civilians in Karbala. "Anyone who'd been in Iraq always knew getting out cleanly was going to be infinitely harder than getting in," says senior foreign correspondent Johanna McGeary, who wrote...