Article: Kerik's old boss Giuliani talks tough.

Byline: Jimmy Breslin

Sep. 2--If you'll recall, Bernard Kerik, who was Rudy Giuliani's police commissioner and big boy bodyguard, went to Iraq to put their police into shape. He lasted half the tour. He left a pack of rogues with badges.

Yesterday, General Petraeus said in Baghdad that the entire Iraqi police force was so corrupt and miserably trained that the only thing they could do with them was disband them.

Kerik was there as a member of Rudy Giuliani's private company. It is crucial to know of what he did, for it is the way he does everything, slovenly and suspicious, and this is what Giuliani sees as competent, even great, and in a time ...

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