Word: proconsulate
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...they have no plans to send more troops to Iraq, though the Administration is actively pushing its allies to send up to 30,000 more of their troops there by the end of September. For the foreseeable future, cleaning up the mess has fallen entirely to Bremer, 61, the proconsul in whom the Bush Administration has vested complete authority for getting the country running again, winning 25 million hearts and minds and eventually making Iraq safe for democracy. "We are the government of Iraq, and that's big, scary stuff," Andy Bearpark, Bremer's chief of operations, told TIME. "What...
Meeting last month at a sweltering u.s. base outside Doha, Qatar, with his top Iraq commanders, President Bush skipped quickly past the niceties and went straight to his chief political obsession: Where are the weapons of mass destruction? Turning to his Baghdad proconsul, Paul Bremer, Bush asked, "Are you in charge of finding WMD?" Bremer said no, he was not. Bush then put the same question to his military commander, General Tommy Franks. But Franks said it wasn't his job either. A little exasperated, Bush asked, So who is in charge of finding WMD? After aides conferred...
...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 and diplomatic complexities...
...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 and diplomatic complexities...
...many quarters there is deep opposition to him as a Pentagon puppet--but Garner wanted a chance to hear Chalabi's take on the situation. Pressed and proper in a tie and herringbone jacket, despite more than a week of living in a crumbling warehouse, Chalabi told the American proconsul the looting must be stopped so that citizens would feel safe. "We do not want Iraqis turning to Americans to solve their problems," Chalabi said. He wants Iraqis going to other Iraqis for help. But he didn't talk of how an Iraqi Interim Authority would...