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)

From: The New American | Date: August 11, 2003| Author: Mass, Warren | Copyright information

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 h...

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