first thing every morning in Iraq, Bremer talked to Rice on the phone

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http://www.counterpunch.com/


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Bremer's successor is no stranger to those who watch the spooks. John Dmitiri Negroponte presided over the secret 1971 Cambodian incursion from the embassy in Saigon, moved on to Honduras where he ran the Contra operation out of Tegoo openly consorting with the assassins of Monsignor Romero. The next stop was Mexico where he sold NAFTA to an only-too-willing Carlos Salinas. As Bush's ambassador to the United Nations, he bugged and blackmailed Security Council members to give his boss a free hand to squash Saddam and when that failed, the U.S. tried to squash the UN.

Now installed in a monumental Green Zone palace with a staff of thousands, Negroponte will have the same carte blanche powers as the previous proconsul but, as an ambassador, he will have to be more diplomatic about it. One difference between Bremer and Negroponte: the former head of the former CPA took his first phone call each morning from Condoleezza Rice--his replacement will hear from Colin Powell. Never before in North American history have two persons of color been more empowered to reign down maximum mayhem upon the colored peoples of the planet Earth.

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Hours after the Yanqui occupation officially ended, Saddam Hussein was escorted by U.S. Puerto Rican troops (assigned so the wily former dictator would not know what they said among themselves) into a makeshift courtroom at the euphemistically named Camp Victory adjacent to the former Saddam Hussein International Airport, and turned over to the puppet rulers of Iraq. In a badly fitting, cheap American suit, he looked disheveled and diminished, thought a blow-dried John Burns, one of the few reporters admitted to the court session. In the photos, Saddam's eyes ooze mistrust.
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wonder if Puerto Ricans know this? and how they feel about it?