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...ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile." RETIRED LIEUT. GENERAL JAY GARNER, head of the reconstruction effort in Iraq...
...While foreign governments wrestled over the terms for the transition in Iraq, in Baghdad the same issue assumed a new intensity. The five opposition groups tapped by General Jay Garner to form the nucleus of a transitional government held a meeting in the city on Thursday. But rather than form a government themselves, the five - the leaders of the two main Kurdish parties, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani; Ahmed Chalabi from the Pentagon-backed Iraqi National Congress; Iyad Allawi, head of the Iraqi National Accord, an exile organization of Iraqi officials who defected from the regime; and Abdul Aziz...
...place a friendly Iraqi leadership - preferably led by its favorite Iraqi exile, Ahmad Chalabi - in order to diminish the period of direct rule by the U.S. military. But the State Department had warned against a rush to install an exile-dominated leadership of uncertain standing among Iraqis. Next week, Garner hands the reins of the transition over to Paul "Jerry" Bremer, a seasoned State Department antiterrorism official tapped to supercede the retired general as U.S. viceroy in Baghdad. And the plans may yet change after that - on any number of fronts...
Pagan-Teitelbaum and Allen said they are looking to garner support for a wood shop at Harvard next year, and the event featured many of their own wooden creations...
...Vietnam] took too long...If President Bush had been President, we would have won." JAY GARNER, retired lieutenant general charged with leading the effort to rebuild Iraq...