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...Paul Bremer, the American proconsul in Iraq, is being directed to change policy there as the political winds blow [Nov. 24]. One has to wonder if the timetable for transferring governance to the Iraqis was accelerated because it is in the best interests of that country or because President Bush's primary concern is his re-election bid. MICHAEL ROBERTSON Frisco, Texas...
...descending on the mid-Atlantic coast that could have prevented his attending a special Christmas show taping the next day. Bush called Adnan Pachachi, the acting president of the Iraqi governing council, to congratulate him; as they were trying to get him on the cell phone Pachachi was with Bremer at Saddam?s holding location. He couldn?t take the phone immediately because he was berating the fallen dictator...
...Ladies and gentlemen, we got him,? Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, tears in his eyes, told the news conference, which erupted in cheers. ?Iraq?s future, your future, has never been more full of hope. The tyrant is a prisoner.? From the first moment the American video of Saddam in custody began rolling, Iraqi journalists stood and screamed. Some yelled, ?Kill him! Kill Saddam.? The people of Baghdad caught the spirit of hope and pain, firing bullets into the sky and throwing candy, lighting firecrackers in the street. ?They got Saddam!? ?The devil is gone.? It was like a wedding...
...abroad; how to extract essential information from a doomed man without offering him a deal, and so on. Even more important is the question of whether his capture, together with the earlier elimination of his sons, will help draw Saddam?s Baathist supporters into a new, peaceful political process. Bremer reached out to them in Sunday's press conference: ?With the arrest of Saddam Hussein, there is a new opportunity for the members of the former regime, whether military or civilian, to end their bitter opposition...
...Iraqis to fear his wrath when he appears on TV looking like some bedraggled apparition of Karl Marx, being checked for head lice by a latex-gloved U.S. military medic. The psychological impact on Iraqis of the former dictator?s capture will be immense, lifting, as U.S. administrator Paul Bremer put it, a cloud that has been hanging over Iraq ever since Saddam?s regime fell on April 9. It is also a huge morale boost to the U.S.-led coalition and those Iraqis who are working with them - his continued freedom had mocked the power of the occupying forces...