Allawi: Bremer is a Dictator

[ECH1969]

Baghdad – The former Iraqi Prime Minister Dr. Iyad Allawi disclosed his extreme disagreements with the American civil governor of Iraq after the war on Iraq in 2003. He described Bremer as a "Dictator".

Allawi confirmed that his problems with Bremer were due to the contradiction of their views on leading Iraq. While Bremer ordered to dissolve the institutions of the Iraqi state, Allawi stressed the sovereignty of Iraq and rejected the formation of "an artificial government." Allawi's statements, in which he mentioned the incidents that took place in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime until the end of his term as Prime Minister, were included in memoirs that Al Sharq Al Awsat has recorded with him and would be issued in a series as of today.

Allawi dealt with details of the creation of the governing council during the occupation period and the transfer of power to Iraq, including his disputes with Paul Bremer on the means of administering Iraqi affairs and his objections to American policies.

At the beginning of his clashes with the American officials in Iraq, Allawi said that he informed the military governor Jay Garner "If you believe that an Iraqi politician, like me, would receive orders from an American officer, you should just forget about it." Among the points that Allawi aroused in his statement of incidents on paper is his commitment of his opposing situation for the process of Debaathification and dissolving the Iraqi army.

http://www.almendhar.com/english_7978/news.aspx

[hedda_foil]

1. Allawi's running hard for PM.

Interesting that the US-backed candidate for PM is trying to prove to the Iraqi people that he's his own man by releasing (apparently anti US)info like this.

[sabra]

2. What's next?

Allawi proclaiming that * should be charged with war crimes?

[ECH1969]

3. He already said that Bremer shoud be jailed for corruption

[thebigidea]

4. so what does that make you for going along quietly, "Dr." Allawi?

fucking stooge.

[ECH1969]

6. And, yet that doesn't make him any different

then any of the others in the running for PM.

[mazzarro]

5. I wonder who will win at last

It is interesting that while Allawi is doing so much to establish his independence in the eyes of the Iraqis, Chalabi is essentially doing the opposite - in fact Chalabi is trying to re-establish his relationship with the occupying powers.

[ECH1969]

8. It is between Allawi and the UIA

If Allawi picks up more then 26% of the vote he is in because then he just has to ally himself with the Kurds and the Sunnis to form a government. Anything, less then 26% he will have to work out a deal with some in the UIA or Chalabi to get in.

[gulfcoastliberal]

14. If you think they'll have "free & fair elections" think again

Check out riverbend, or the last 2 US presidential elections.

[enigma000]

7. Allawi is courting the Iraqi nationalist vote

He's coming across as an independent strongman candidate who worked with the occupying authority as best he could. Smart move.

[thebigidea]

9. too bad for Allawi that Iraqis aren't lobotomized morons

[enigma000]

10. See reply #8

Sums it up nicely.

Its either Allawi or the Da'wa-SCIRI bunch - and they haven't been an overwhelming success, have they?

[thebigidea]

11. as if Allawi has any kind of popular support.

[enigma000]

12. We will see mid-December

With Ayatollah al-Sistani no longer backing the Shiite religious parties, Allawi may have a good chance. As I understand, his coalition has a wide group of participants: from free-market capitalists to communists.

[Disturbed]

13. Allawi or Chalabi?

Wow! Great choice, eh?

[thebigidea]

17. good to see he has such a strong fanbase here.

[hippiechick]

15. I heard Lugar say yesterday

- and it made my jaw drop - something to the effect of with the current lack of planning, etc ... 'How are we going to pay for the new Iraqi government ?'

WE ??

I thought the "Iraqi oil" was supposed to pay for this entire little adventure, and that the good old American gubmint wouldn't be out one dime. Now not only have we tossed the Clinton/Gore Surplus, the Social Security trust and most of the national infrastructure down the toilet to fund George's Desert Folly, we also have to pay for whatever gov't ends up running the place ???

[tweekinnow]

16. Bremer Robbed Iraq BLIND

He stole everything his masters told him to and then some.It's no wonder these people are pissed.The Theft is the underlying plan,there will be no exit.
Iraq will give it's natural resources to corporate america,period.International Armed Robbery in a nutshell.

http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html


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The tone of Bremer’s tenure was set with his first major act on the job: he fired 500,000 state workers, most of them soldiers, but also doctors, nurses, teachers, publishers, and printers. Next, he flung open the country’s borders to absolutely unrestricted imports: no tariffs, no duties, no inspections, no taxes. Iraq, Bremer declared two weeks after he arrived, was “open for business.”
One month later, Bremer unveiled the centerpiece of his reforms. Before the invasion, Iraq’s non-oil-related economy had been dominated by 200 state-owned companies, which produced everything from cement to paper to washing machines. In June, Bremer flew to an economic summit in Jordan and announced that these firms would be privatized immediately. “Getting inefficient state enterprises into private hands,” he said, “is essential for Iraq’s economic recovery.” It would be the largest state liquidation sale since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
But Bremer’s economic engineering had only just begun. In September, to entice foreign investors to come to Iraq, he enacted a radical set of laws unprecedented in their generosity to multinational corporations. There was Order 37, which lowered Iraq’s corporate tax rate from roughly 40 percent to a flat 15 percent. There was Order 39, which allowed foreign companies to own 100 percent of Iraqi assets outside of the natural-resource sector. Even better, investors could take 100 percent of the profits they made in Iraq out of the country; they would not be required to reinvest and they would not be taxed. Under Order 39, they could sign leases and contracts that would last for forty years. Order 40 welcomed foreign banks to Iraq under the same favorable terms. All that remained of Saddam Hussein’s economic policies was a law restricting trade unions and collective

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[Supersedeas]

25. Then received the Medal of Freedom for his Corp efforts

[Charlie Brown]

18. If Allawi believed Bremer was a dictator

why didn't he just resign? Allawi is trying to argue that the people who gave him his job are corrupt and disreputable, yet he had no problem following their orders for the sake of his own career.

[sattahipdeep]

19. A government of gangsters. John Negroponte

Allawi shot prisoners in cold blood: witnesses

By Paul McGeough in Baghdad
July 17, 2004

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/16/1089694568757...

[0007]

20. Jerry Bremer was a better thief than a dictator....

Allawi is a Saddam wanna be! And Ahmed Chalabi is an adjective that hasn't been invented yet, and yet every American is paying to support Mr. Chalabi.

[leesa]

21. And a thief...what's your point? You didn't know?

[Nimrod2005]

22. Like Allawi, they will all turn against us, they will bite the hand

that fed them...That's the history of the god damn place, someone needs to tell dumbfuck Bush and Co.

[SOS]

23. Allawi

has been in the employ of the CIA since 1992. Now he's critical of Bremer? LOL.
You can guess the Iraqi election calendar just by reading these diversionary "criticisms".

Read more on Allawi's 1990s terrorism including the bombing of a movie theater and a school bus, done to "demonstrate the capability" of the CIA and the bogus INC.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0609-02.htm

[sattahipdeep]

24. Kurds say Bremer misused their funds

IRBIL, Iraq -- The $100 bills were all new. They came wrapped in plastic
and loaded on wooden pallets. Altogether, the money weighed 15 tons,
enough to fill three U.S. military helicopters. It totaled $1.4 billion.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05331/612713.stm

Bremer To Speak At Security Firm Fund-Raiser (Blackwater)

The Moyock, North Carolina-based company also won contracts to protect
businesses and federal property in Louisiana in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina, when looting and assaults overwhelmed the abilities
of police to keep up.

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/5353864/detail.html