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Article: Bremer rules in Iraq: the same Insider network that first built up Saddam Hussein, and then used U.S. military power to topple his regime, has put one of its own in charge of rebuilding Iraq.(Iraq)(L. Paul Bremer III)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- August 11, 2003
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On June 29th, the guest on the BBC Sunday morning news program Breakfast With Frost could not have been more blunt:
We are going to fight them and impose
our will on them and we will
capture or, if necessary, kill them until
we have imposed law and order on
this country.
The speaker was L. Paul Bremer III, the American civilian administrator of Iraq. Former Ambassador Bremer received his assignment on May 6th, when President Bush announced his appointment as "Presidential Envoy to Iraq" to serve as the senior coalition official in that sad and beleaguered nation. In that capacity, Bremer "will oversee Coalition reconstruction efforts and ...