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...State James Baker, then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft in 1991. In a similar move, President George W. Bush gave the nod to Tommy Franks, the retired Army general who led the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions; former CIA Director George Tenet; and L. Paul Bremer, who oversaw reconstruction in Iraq. Bush said the three men had "played pivotal roles in great events" to make "our country more secure" - a sentiment that wasn't exactly shared by many. But despite the chorus of critics, there's no recourse when a President makes up his mind...
...military pullout will inevitably change the nature of the U.S. role in Iraq and that of its ambassador. Hill, 57, cannot play the plenipotentiary, as his predecessors did. U.S. civilian assistance to Iraq, now about $500 million a year, is a far cry from the $20 billion Paul Bremer, Washington's first postinvasion envoy, had at his disposal. "Without 120,000 soldiers behind him and a blank check from Washington, you can say [Hill] is the first real American ambassador to Iraq," says the Iraqi official, who asked not to be named. "And we will treat him with respect...
...Robert De Niro played in Taxi Driver? The gun love, the quiet surliness, the loner status, the head whisperings, the mistaken fashioning of other people's motives into paranoid scenarios - all echo the violent cabbie in Martin Scorsese's movie, whose script was inspired by the diary of Arthur Bremer, the would-be assassin of Governor George Wallace...
Iraq's U.S.-appointed administrator, L. Paul Bremer, demurred, though he gave Kurds key political appointments. On my next visit two years later, Arab neighborhoods were being depleted as the Kurds sought to drive out Saddam's supporters. Turkomans and Arabs remained adamant that many of the Kurdish newcomers were not Kirkuk natives but had been sent to try to secure a majority before a new census and hence win a referendum, mandated by the new Iraqi constitution, on the city's future...
...military historian, do you see a clear path for a resolution to the Iraq occupation? -Halston Howard Torrance, Calif.Well, I said in December 2003, "We've gone off a cliff." I think [special envoy to Iraq L. Paul] Bremer's decisions in June of 2003 were an absolute, total strategic fiasco. When political leaders decide they can violate all the rules of war, they get beat...