Monday, June 28, 2004
The Wheel, It Spins
AP: U.S. Occupation Chief Bremer Heads Home0 comments
Accompanied by spokesman Dan Senor, bodyguards and close members of his staff, L. Paul Bremer walked across the tarmac to a U.S. Air Force C-130 military plane.
Iraq's deputy prime minister, Barham Saleh, walked alongside him.
The two shook hands, and Bremer waved to a gathered crowd and left Iraq for home.
"Thank you all for coming to say 'Good-bye'!
Well, we've succeeded in effectively turning this beautiful country into the Third Pit of Hell, and now, satisfied with our efforts, let me just say, we're OUTTA HERE!
See ya, suckers!"
Meanwhile, as Bremer hotfoots it out one door, in comes Big John through another:
AP: Negroponte Takes Ambassador Post in Iraq
John Negroponte, the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, arrived in Baghdad Monday to take over political contact between Washington and the fledgling Iraqi interim government.
The former American envoy to the United Nations reached the Iraqi capital late Monday, hours after the handover of sovereignty to Iraq's new government.
And by still later on Monday night, this former U.S. overseer in Guatamala in the 1980s had two full Iraqi death squads up and fully operational.
It's good to hit the ground running.
posted by Gotham 2:53 PM
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