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To: jlallen who wrote (22854)	7/21/2003 5:16:40 PM
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How can this be? ....Jerry Bremer, President Bush's envoy to Iraq and the head of the Authority, comment(ed) about news reports to the effect that his team lacks a strategy--they're "nonsense"--Bremer shifted to his outline. "We've got to do three things," he began. "We have to establish a sense of security and stability in the country. We have to, secondly, begin the process of economic reform. And we have to move along on transition to a democratic political structure.".... ....On security: "Where is our problem?.... Our problem is largely confined to... the 'Sunni Triangle'... That's where the problem is. It's not elsewhere.... ....he suggested that writing a constitution could take less than eight months. That compact time frame will be necessary if Iraq is to hold elections within a year, something Bremer hinted is possible. Bremer seems well aware of the skeptical coverage his efforts are receiving in the American media. He is eager to dispel myths before they gel into conventional wisdom.... "I keep reading in the press that we are somehow late or behind schedule,".... "I said when I got here on May 13 that we would have a political council, we then called it, inplace by the middle of July. We had iton July 13, basically right on schedule.".... ....revitalizing the Iraqi economy would be the most difficult challenge his team faces. The destruction comes not from the war--"almost no damage from the war," he says--but from a "comprehensively mismanaged economy over 35 years.".... Bremer is realistic--"We do have a security problem," he says--but not discouraged. "When I got to Baghdad eight weeks ago," says Bremer, "the city was burning. It was on fire. There was no traffic in the city, other than coalition vehicles. And I slept with earplugs at night because of the gunfire. This is a remarkably better place in all three aspects." .... I thought everything was a complete mess, that there was no plan in place & everything was far behind schedule?