A Bummer It Is, Bremer

Recently in the House Democrats grilled the former U.S. occupation chief in Iraq over how he doled out up to $12 billion in Iraqi money without accounting for it.
Firing back in a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing Tuesday, L. Paul Bremer III insisted that he did the best he could in the middle of a war and repeatedly said he had spent Iraqi — not U.S. — money. Bremer ran the country for 14 months.
So Bremer assumes he didn’t do any wrong in throwing Iraqi money without any reasonable control. It is essential for one in his position of trust to be accountable. Wasn't his role as that of a trustee? His excuse that it was not US money sounds shocking to say the least. Consider his position. It was that of a viceroy and his actions,-doesn’t that speak the mindset of an occupier? Paul Bremer must bear the odium of one who brought Iraq to such a sorry state as we know now. He foolishly carried out de-Baathification program without setting in place adequate machinery to keep the country running; he was more concerned with his control over every nut and bolt of his office and not for taking care of the citizens. The man on the street is yet to be provided with modicum of essential services and security.
His failure is only one among several failures one of which as we read now, has come to pass. Recently there was a question of poor quality of training provided to the local recruits for policing the streets of Baghdad. Wastage of time and money under this heading also must run to millions.
benny