Suits me.
Regards, Ivan
Posted on 06/30/2004 10:31:08 PM PDT by MadIvan
DRESSED in his trademark combat boots and a dark business suit, Paul Bremer spoke yesterday of the weight lifted off his shoulders after the end of his tenure as US administrator in Iraq.
Speaking outside the White House, Mr Bremer said he was relieved to be in the United States after handing over sovereignty on Monday.
"It’s like having a rather large weight lifted off my shoulders," he told ABC’s Good Morning America programme. But he said he was sorry not to have brought more stability to Iraq, where insurgents launch daily attacks and the death toll is rising for US forces and Iraqis.
A study released yesterday in Geneva said more than eight million small arms, from pistols to machine-guns, fell into private hands in Iraq after the ousting of Saddam Hussein.
Mr Bremer said he hopes that now the Iraqis had "full responsibility" for their country, insurgents might lessen their attacks when they realised they were targeting the Iraqi people and not the occupiers.
Mr Bremer said he believed Iraq was a better place after 14 months of US occupation and the ousting of Saddam. He said he hoped to return to Iraq and show his granddaughter around one day.
He was optimistic Iraq’s interim government would be successful and hailed its prime minister, Iyad Allawi, as a "tough guy" with a highly able cabinet.
He welcomed the handover of Saddam to Iraq’s legal authorities yesterday and said he would get the kind of justice denied his own people.
Asked if he feared Saddam supporters would try to overrun a prison and free him, Mr Bremer said: "The more likely scenario is that a bunch of people who want to kill him take him over and hack him to pieces."
Suits me.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
Italian or Romanian style?
I think that descriptions fits from the UN all the way down. They sure do not want him talking about that "oil for rotten food" program.
I hope Saddam tells what great friends the French have been to him for such a long time....
As opposed to what, being in the hands of those sweethearts in the Baathist party who killed hundreds of thousands of people while Hussein was in charge?
Chirac seems very worried, can't help but think that his refusal to fight terrorism was a "plea" and a signal to his good old buddy Saddam.
I am sure that France is up to its neck in the Oil for Food Scandal. I am also sure that Saddam will sell out anyone, even his old friend Chirac.
It will all come out.
I think the reason the french lawyer has volunteered to represent Saddam is to make sure that Saddam doesn't spill the beans.
I agree, however, the French let Saddam down "big time" and unless they plan to off him not sure how they can keep him quiet when it is now his neck on the line.
I don't see a problem....
My hope is that his extensive, televised trial will be like watching the turkey roast through the window in the oven.
I'm neurotic...I worry about a free Saddam for Western hostages situation.
It could have happened at any time going on months since Saddam's capture.
Lots of Al-Queda cooling off at Guantanamo who could have been the benefactors of just such an action.
Hasn't happened yet.
How many times in history has that happened? Not many.
The absolutely best thing the Iraqis can do to establish a bedrock of democracy in the ME is to march the raped women, the amputees and the surviving family members of the murdered up on the stand so that the worlds left wing whackos can look in the mirror and puke every morning.
Chirac is not alone in the blame department, the lying crooked liberals in this nation have a full share in the blame department.
Yes indeed, I believe with my whole mind that they will be held responsible. Although it may well not be in this flesh life. Note I did not say they were going to Hades.
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