Word: bremer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...BREMER: There was just plain opposition to caucuses. [The Iraqi representatives] agreed to this in November, and they changed their minds. So let's move on. We hope that the U.N. will play a bigger role and re-engage as they offered...
...BREMER: It appears that almost all the Zarqawi operations do not involve Iraqis. Al-Zarqawi [has said] that when democracy comes to Iraq, there will be no pretext for continuing the attacks. He also recognizes that there is very little support here for his terrorists. Therefore, his only way forward is to try to provoke a sectarian war between Shias and Sunnis...
...BREMER: I think it was the right decision. By the time the war ended, there was no army anymore to disband. To have left an army that had attacked every one of Iraq's neighbors, which was responsible for some of the most brutal repression of the Iraqi people, which was hated by many Iraqis and which in any case did not exist as an organized operation, we would have had to re-create the army--that is simply illogical...
...BREMER: It's too early to tell. I feel like I'm in a fast-moving car on a slippery mountain road. I don't spend a lot of time looking in the rearview mirror. I'll let the historians worry about that...
...BREMER: It's called Rip van Winkle. I'm going to sleep for at least three months...