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To: RMF who wrote (791215)	6/22/2014 2:04:03 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577989

>> Bremer ISOLATED the Sunnis and gave them a good idea about what their future would be in the new Iraq. I believe Bremer concluded that "Debaathification" was a popular idea but shouldn't have been turned over to the politicians. This left the public with the idea debaathification meant banishing it from the society and that was never his intent. At least that's what he said a while back. I liked Bremer a lot before he took the assignment in Iraq; I thought he was an excellent choice. I don't know to what extent I'm influenced by media accounts, which are almost always wrong and misleading, but I don't know to what extent he bungled it vs. took on a job that was too big. I remember some years ago, after having read some book on it, wondering how a person would go about managing something like that. And I honestly had no idea. There are no systems in place, you don't know who you can depend on, I just don't know how anyone could do it. I think it was Bilow last week who made a good point about how at the end of WWII the defeat had been so thorough and EVERYONE was affected by it. I think that does make a difference when you start trying to pull the pieces together. In Iraq there were various remnants still functioning, and the insurgency was determined.