Pros and Cons (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
L. Paul Bremer’s book is presently playing away in my CD player in the car. It seems there was a military plan for Iraq - it rested on the assumption that the Iraqi military police and army would surrender intact and be used for large-scale labor projects. The hundreds of pages of US State Dept. Plan [...]
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
*An "Older Article"....but an interesting read!* :rolleyes: *It gives you an Idea of their plans for Iraq....and its _POTENTIAL_!* To get the "Honey Part" you need to check out the full article (And it is a BIG ONE!) *It can be found at:* http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/09/0080197 L. Paul...
Alternet (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
"Firebrand." It was the ubiquitous moniker used to describe Iraq's fiercely anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr when, in March 2004, his leering portrait became commonplace among American media reports of Iraq.American Viceroy L. Paul Bremer III had just shut down al-Sadr's Baghdad newspaper, al-Hawza, and hinted at arresting him, ushering in the first of several confrontations...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... director Mitch Daniels estimated the Iraq war would cost $50 billion to $60 billion. A year later, L. Paul Bremer, then-chief of the U.S. occupation government in Iraq, said the war would cost $100 billion.Yet the Iraq war has consumed less of the nation's gross domestic product than other pricey conflicts. The Iraq war's costs represented 1 percent of GDP in the peak year of the...
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... director Mitch Daniels estimated the Iraq war would cost $50 billion to $60 billion. A year later, L. Paul Bremer, then-chief of the U.S. occupation government in Iraq, said the war would cost $100 billion.Yet the Iraq war has consumed less of the nation's gross domestic product than other pricey conflicts. The Iraq war's costs represented 1 percent of GDP in the peak year of the...
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... director Mitch Daniels estimated the Iraq war would cost $50 billion to $60 billion. A year later, L. Paul Bremer, then-chief of the U.S. occupation government in Iraq, said the war would cost $100 billion.
CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... director Mitch Daniels estimated the Iraq war would cost $50 billion to $60 billion. A year later, L. Paul Bremer, then-chief of the U.S. occupation government in Iraq, said the war would cost $100 billion.Yet the Iraq war has consumed less of the nation's gross domestic product than other pricey conflicts. The Iraq war's costs represented 1 percent of GDP in the peak year of the...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
"Firebrand." It was the ubiquitous moniker used to describe Iraq's fiercely anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr when, in March 2004, his leering portrait became commonplace among American media reports of Iraq. American Viceroy L. Paul Bremer III had just shut down al-Sadr's Baghdad newspaper, al-Hawza, and hinted at arresting him, ushering in the first of several confrontations...
In These Times (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
"Firebrand." It was the ubiquitous moniker used to describe Iraq's fiercely anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr when, in March 2004, his leering portrait became commonplace among American media reports of Iraq. American Viceroy L. Paul Bremer III had just shut down al-Sadr's Baghdad newspaper, al-Hawza, and hinted at arresting him, ushering in the first of several confrontations...
The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Yesterday, RBO pointed out the obvious irony that one of the three Iraqi officials with whom Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) met while “making the rounds in Baghdad” was Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who had served on the Iraqi Governing Council, appointed July 13, 2003, by Coalition Provisional Authority Administrator L. Paul Bremer, with Sen. Obama’s [...]
The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... Governing Council , appointed July 13, 2003, by Coalition Provisional Authority Administrator L. Paul Bremer, with Sen. Obama’s fellow Chicagoan, former Iraqi Minister of Electricity, Aiham Alsammarae . Yes, yes. It’s the same Aiham Alsammarae who was wanted by Intel for the theft of at least $650 million in Iraqi reconstruction dollars (i.e. U.S. tax dollars) and was convicted in...
SWJ Blog (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
... certainly the tone of recent memoirs by Douglas Feith, the former undersecretary of defense, and L. Paul Bremer, the onetime head of the Coalition Provisional Authority. These were the people making policy, yet they treat the key mistakes as other people's fault. Feith criticizes Bremer and the CIA, while Bremer chides former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the...
Alternet (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
... was no more and, soon enough, the Iraqi Army of 400,000 had been officially disbanded by L. Paul Bremer, the head of the occupying Coalition Provisional Authority and the President's viceroy in Baghdad. By then, ministry buildings -- except for the and interior ministries -- were just looted shells. Schools, hospitals, museums, libraries, just about everything that was national or...
RubyTooth.com (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Weeks after the toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, ambassador L. Paul Bremer and a group of administrators went to Iraq with the goal of establishing a democracy. One year later Bremer left, but a growing insurgency and broken economy have continued to pose a challenge to U.S. troops and the young Iraqi government.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
... bases and interrogating suspects.The contractors have been operating in a legal gray area since L. Paul Bremer III issued an order granting them immunity from prosecution in Iraqi courts the day before he stepped down as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in June 2004.Those hired by the Department of Defense can be tried in a U.S. federal court for crimes committed overseas...
