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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
by Thomas L. Friedman
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by Thomas L. Friedman
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01/11/2006
L. Paul Bremer
An hour with former Presidential Envoy to Iraq L. Paul Bremmer
Keywords:
de-Baathification, Tommy Franks, Donald Rumsfeld, Presidential envoy to Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III, Ahmed Chalabi, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope, The Baath Party, Coalition Provisional Government, Presidential Medal of Freedom, provisional government, Nuclear weapons proliferation, Iraq
An hour conversation with former Presidential Envoy to Iraq L. Paul Bremer about his experience as the administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority and his book "My Year in Iraq".
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An excellent conversation, Charlie.
L. Paul Bremer blithely pronounces that the Ahmed Chalabi was a successful businessman. Charlie lets that canard slip by?! And Enron was a successful company. And Donald Rumsfeld was a successful U.S. Secretary of Defense. Bremer's assertion that Chalabi (among all the anti-Saddam Iraqi exiles) was listened to/selected as our top man in Iraq because he was a successful businessman gives rise the question: Why was Ahmed Chalabi, a "successful businessman" (who operatied Petra Bank in Jordan) not meeting minimum reserve requirements? Why was Ahmed Chalabi, a "successful businessman" indicted by the Government of Jordan for banking fraud? Why is Ahmed Chalabi, a "successful businessman" on the run from Jordanian authorities? If post-Saddam Iraq was/is one of the most important long-term reconstruction projects since post-WWII Japan and Germany, why was L. Paul Bremer (another Bush-Brownie complete with his own Katrina on the Tigris) selected to project an image of incompetent mismanagement ... both during and after?