A parade of weasels (L. Paul Bremer)

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MARTIN SCHRAM:

A parade of weasels

By MARTIN SCHRAM, Scripps Howard News Service
Last updated: January 17th, 2006 08:29 PM (PST)

(SH) - Now, parading into view, here comes affable Jerry Bremer. Officially, L. Paul Bremer, who famously spent a year as Our Man in Iraq. He has joined the parade of Bush ex-officials - ex-greats and ingrates - rushing to recast their images and cover their aspirations in time to get on the right side of history in Bob Woodward's next tome.

Like ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell's ex-chief of staff Lawrence B. Wilkerson (who said Vice President Cheney led a cabal advocating torture) and, for that matter, like the ex-Sec himself, Jerry Bremer wants to make sure you can see that he has always been the guy in the white hat, riding the white horse. He wants you to see this clearly, but not too closely. Otherwise, you will discover that his steed was not a white horse but a weasel.

In Bremer's case, a gelded white weasel - as we all saw with our own eyes Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." Bremer was there to plug (yup, you are getting good at this) his new book - 417 pages of image enhancement and payback for the roughly 365 days he ran Iraq for America. The image he is enhancing is his; the payback is for all who didn't listen to his wisdom, especially Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Moderator Tim Russert put Our Man and his weasel through their paces in Sunday's riding lesson. Russert quoted what Bremer told us in his book and what he'd said while in office.


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