Paul Bremer intends to leave Iraq in late June

[Barrett808]

Paul Bremer intends to leave Iraq in late June
11.01.2004, 03.05

KUWAIT CITY, January 11 (Itar-Tass) - US civilian administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer intends to leave this country in late June. He made the statement to Iraqi journalists on Saturday, the news agency KUNA reported. According to Bremer he does not intend to stay in Iraq after the foresaid date and represent the US in Baghdad as an ambassador.

Bremer noted that he did not discuss with the Iraqi side the presence of US troops in the country after the transfer of power to a newly elected leadership. He reminded US President Bush’s words about future Iraq that according to the White House chief should be a stable, democratic and peaceful state towards its neighbours.

The US civilian administrator also stressed that Saddam Hussein will be tried at an open trial thus refuting all rumours about it. He added that the former dictator is still kept in Iraq and was not brought outside the country.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=293676&PageNum=0

[otohara]

1. Quitter, Slacker

Let me guess, he wants to spend more time with his family?

[saigon68]

7. He wants on the Board Of Halliburton or Exxon-Mobil

Time to cash in the chips.

Maybe some day we'll see him in the dock.

[0007]

12. Yeah, Bremer couldn't make it with the Carlyle boys!

They're alittle to sharpe for Paul.

[knight_of_the_star]

2. Interesting

So we get to see if he leaves in triumph or is evaced from the roof of the CPA HQ via Helicopter.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Rats are starting to bail

from the USS 43rd, as it starts to flounder.

Now to his credit he is trying to keep teh time line going.... but I suspect there is more to this than the time line

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. Rumors persist that...

...Bremer will replace the ailing Powell as SecState.

[0007]

13. Aren't the troops suppose to be out by June 30th?

BTW, is this when Saddam Hussein is turned over the Iraqis?

[amber dog democrat]

5. Guess it was not as much fun

a job as it was cracked up to be. I'd leave too before I am flown out in a box.
This kind of makes me think of the Russian Front just before Stalingrad.

[acmavm]

6. Just ahead of the outbreak of the civil war, perhaps?

.

[DU9598]

8. Some sweetheart deal with Bechtel or Halliburton?

I am sure he will be profitting kindly once he gets out of "public service".

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. I had the same thought

Supposedly the clerics are telling everyone to wait till the Americans leave and then all hell is going to break loose.

[alfredo]

9. he's going to take a new post

in syria.

[UTUSN]

10. Kick n/t

[kskiska]

11. So…who's the next guy

to be rewarded with this post?

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[daleo]

14. If U.S. troops go, then he goes

He would be a sitting duck otherwise.

[NNN0LHI]

16. Even money says he does not make it to June...for one reason or another

[Endangered Specie]

17. aint it grand to be able to choose your exit time?

unlike all the other poor common soldiers?

[goforit]

18. I wonder if he is physically sick, with all that recycled uranium around.

I tell you he has not looked well for the last 2 months.

Hope he'll be OK.

[BiggJawn]

20. But he'll be back in early August....

Just a little vacation back home.

[dudeness]

21. Robert Fisk hits the bullseye

Ever since Daniel Pipes -- he of the failed American neocons -- piped up last summer with his plan to install a "democratic-minded autocrat" (sic) in Iraq, I have been eying the Washington crystal ball for further signs of what the designers of this wretched war have in store for the Iraqis whom they "liberated" for "democracy" last year. And bingo, not long before Christmas, another of those chilling proposals for "New Iraq" popped up from the same right-wing cabal. Any predictions for Iraq this year may thus have to be based on the thoughts of Leslie Gelb, a former chairman of the United States Council on Foreign Relations, whose wretched plans for "liberated" Iraq call for something close to ethnic cleansing.

In no less an organ than The New York Times -- the same paper which carried a plea last year that Americans should accept that US troops will commit "atrocities" in Iraq -- appeared Gelb's "Three State Solution", an astonishing combination of simplicity and ruthlessness. It goes like this: America should create three ministates in Iraq -- Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center and Shiites in the south -- the frontiers of these three entities drawn along ethnic, sectarian lines. The "general idea," says Gelb, "is to strengthen the Kurds and Shiites and weaken the Sunnis." Thus US forces can extricate themselves from the quagmire of the "Sunni triangle" while the "troublesome and domineering" Sunnis themselves -- with no control over Iraq's northern or southern oil fields -- will be in a more moderate frame of mind.


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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=14388

[Cocoa]

22. the Iraqis are going to miss him terribly

They've grown to love him, he represents their liberation. A lot of Iraqis are naming their kids L. Paul in his honor. I heard all this from Bob Arnot on MSNBC.