Word: garnering
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...Diane L. Garner, librarian for the social sciences, said there are issues beyond immediate overcrowding at stake...
Some people waiting in line were taking advantage of Clinton’s proximity to garner a signature for friends and family members miles away...
Complicating the Garner team's planning was the Pentagon's war plan, which Army officers say called for an invasion force too small to maintain security and take on massive rebuilding tasks after victory. "There was a lot of pressure from the Secretary of Defense to keep the force small to show we could win the war that way," an Army officer says. And so the U.S. was left with a relatively light combat force short on the skills and tools needed to control the chaos that seized the country after the fall of Baghdad. Garner told TIME that while...
While Baghdad burned, American officials in Iraq squabbled over familiar Washington commodities: turf and money. Adams says members of Garner's team wanted to pay former Iraqi soldiers to perform cleanup and security tasks and were stunned when Bremer told them that was not going to happen (a decision he reversed, in part, after a month of turmoil). Garner's 200-member Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq found itself unable to exert authority over the activities of the 146,000 soldiers in Iraq, let alone Iraqi civilians. And part of the problem was Garner himself...
Bremer's biggest asset is his direct line to the people who matter in Washington. He says he speaks to Bush every 10 days and to Rumsfeld several times a week. He phones in to the White House's weekly national security meeting. Unlike Garner, whom some U.S. officials criticize for failing to engage the Army commanders, Bremer works closely with Lieut. General Sanchez to determine how the military deploys its resources. Since Bremer's arrival, U.S. troops have become more visible peacekeepers: conducting foot patrols, guarding schools, building soccer fields, cleaning streets. "What is unusual is that Lieut. General...