L. Paul Bremer is a wimp:
Yahoo! News - Bremer Takes Back Statements About Bush: L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq (news - web sites), said Sunday he regrets a statement he made more than six months before the Sept. 11 attacks that the Bush administration was “paying no attention” to terrorism.
Bremer said any implied criticism that President Bush (news - web sites) was not acting against terrorism was “unfair.”… At a McCormick Tribune Foundation conference on terrorism on Feb. 26, 2001, Bremer said, “The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there’s a major incident and then suddenly say, ‘Oh, my God, shouldn’t we be organized to deal with this?’ That’s too bad. They’ve been given a window of opportunity with very little terrorism now, and they’re not taking advantage of it.”
Bremer made the speech after he had chaired the National Commission on Terrorism, a bipartisan body formed by the Clinton administration to examine U.S. counterterrorism policies…
He’s already shredded his reputation by his performance as proconsul in Iraq. Now he’s smashing the only claim to merit he has left–that he was one of those begging the Bush (and the Clinton) administration to focus more on terrorism back before 911.
Interesting….
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