Article: The Viceroy; The Bush administration's man in Baghdad ran a hastily improvised occupation, with fateful consequences.

MY YEAR IN IRAQ

The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope

By L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell

Simon & Schuster. 417 pp. $27

On the desk of his cavernous and bare office at the Republican Palace in Baghdad, from which he governed Iraq in 2003-04, L. Paul Bremer III kept a carved wooden maxim: "Success Has a Thousand Fathers." It told visitors that the administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) was a can-do leader who would shun grandiose gestures while demanding relentless results from his Anglo- American staff and the Iraqi politicians who were his negotiating partners and resentful underlings. Bremer is not a man given to sustained reflection or self-scrutiny. His new ...

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