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...certainly grown in recent weeks, with the U.S. decision to dissolve the Iraqi military, leaving some 400,000 Iraqi breadwinners with no income. Some 3,000 protested angrily this week in Baghdad, and threatened to take up arms against the U.S. unless they're paid. U.S. administrator Paul Bremer has indicated that the occupying authority will start recruitment for a new national army at the end of this month, but the force would eventually comprise only 40,000 personnel. That leaves hundreds of thousands of military men out in the cold, which together with the 30,000 senior Baathists precluded...
...fairness, he wasn't pressed very hard by the Senators, who apparently find precise questions, unlike imprecise speeches, an unnecessary act of self-abnegation. Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel was an exception. He asked, simply: Why was former General Jay Garner so quickly replaced by former diplomat L. Paul Bremer as the American proconsul in Iraq? Wolfowitz said Garner hadn't been replaced. He had been subsumed: the Pentagon had planned all along to put someone like Bremer in charge. But this was nonsense; several military experts told me that Garner was replaced because he had been paralyzed by the political...
...fairness, he wasn't pressed very hard by the Senators, who apparently find precise questions, unlike imprecise speeches, an unnecessary act of self-abnegation. Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel was an exception. He asked, simply: Why was former General Jay Garner so quickly replaced by former diplomat L. Paul Bremer as the American proconsul in Iraq? Wolfowitz said Garner hadn't been replaced. He had been subsumed: the Pentagon had planned all along to put someone like Bremer in charge. But this was nonsense; several military experts told me that Garner was replaced because he had been paralyzed by the political...
...challenge of turning things around now falls to Bremer, a consummate Washington operator who worked for Henry Kissinger's consulting firm for more than a decade after 23 years in the State Department. His record as a tough, capable administrator somehow manages to satisfy both Pentagon hard-liners and State Department moderates. "He takes no prisoners," says a U.S. official, who nonetheless wonders whether Bremer can truly make a difference as long as Washington remains reluctant to conduct what the official calls a "proper" occupation, which means enough men, resources and commitment for the long, hard job of rebuilding...
...BAGHDAD: Paul Bremer has one of the world's toughest jobs: bringing order to Iraq's chaotic capital...