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Article: The Viceroy; The Bush administration's man in Baghdad ran a hastily improvised occupation, with fateful consequences.
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- The Washington Post
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- January 22, 2006
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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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