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of the occupation and his retreat

it is the victory of Iraq and of the Iraqis.

Only a few days later

of that the USA will enter Baghdad...

it murdered a leader chita

pro American.

It started creating an armed militia,

the Army of Mahdi...

that took the control

of the ghetto chita of Baghdad...

and almost all the south of Iraq.

If we deal

of the matters of alertness...

if there had not been plundering...

there would not have been sectarian militias...

as safety source in the quarters.

The ORHA strained

in remembering the Iraqi army...

that will deal with the safety.

The central control of the army,

CENTCOM, supported this measurement.

The CENTCOM included in his plan...

to re-restore the Iraqi army.

They used it to seal the borders...

to contribute static safety...

and to help to reconstruct

your own nation.

But on April 23, 2003,

Jay Garner received a call.

Rumsfeld called me and said...

.

" They are doing a big work.

" I am glad that they are

in Baghdad, certainly...

" the president

it has named Jerry Bremer...

" presidential envoy ".

MANAGER,

PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY

Bremer was

diplomatic official.

As other officials...

Bremer was not speaking Arabic...

it had no experience in the Middle East...

or in reconstruction of postwar period...

and it had never served in the army.

After the arrival of Bremer,

progressively...

and the Authority

Provisional of the Coalition, the CPA...

it would take his place.

We want to do a delivery

very effective and efficient...

BREMER COMES TO BAGHDAD

... and organized well.

General Garner and I we are

.

It has done a big work.

We inform it about everything...

one day passed seeing

what was each one doing...

and, then, it took the control.

I returned to house 3, 4 or on June 5.

THE REBELLION OF BREMER

Between May 1 and May 10,

when it went out towards Iraq...

Bremer was employed at the Pentagon...

met often

with Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz...

and the undersecretary Doug Feith.

Bremer also worked

with Walter Slocombe...

undersecretary of Defense...

whom Rumsfeld entrusted

the politics of postwar period...

for the Iraqi army.

They called me in the middle of May, 2003.

thought in some moment...

what was a little late to think about that?

ADVISER FOR DEFENSE

AND NATIONAL SAFETY

Yes.

Was it said to them?

Not.

As Bremer...

Slocombe had not served in the army...

it had not gone to Iraq...

it had no experience

in reconstruction of postwar period...

was not speaking Arabic.

In the first 10 days

of work of Bremer...

in Washington...

it took three fatidical decisions.

the formation...

of a provisional Iraqi government...

although Jay Garner

it had worked to establish it.

Jay Garner was in favor...

of forming an Iraqi government...

but Baghdad was suppressed of way...

and I do not believe that

general Garner knew it...

not I neither.

might say

that promised us...

that there would be a sovereign government...

almost immediately.

" I am in charge and all

they will obey me. That is quite.

" Understood? ".

This way it was like...

L. Paul Bremer It appeared.

Too loyal and too much

dependent on his mission...

to notice that his prompt exclusion

of the Iraqis...

of the process of capture of decisions...

it was a catastrophic error.

refused

to be interviewed for this documentary.

In May, 2003 we had

the legal occupation of Iraq.

In that moment I said it, and now I believe...

that was an error.

We want that EE.UU...

leave Iraq completely...

and that allow to the Iraqi people to govern Iraq.

The reaction against

his following decisions...

it would be worse enough.

Desbaazificacin.

I restore today an Iraqi commission

for the desbaazificacin...

so that the structure and the influence...

of the party Baaz

they are eliminated forever.

His second decision...

his first formal order

at the head of the CPA...

it eliminated approximately 50.000 members

of the party Baaz...

that Saddam had used

to govern Iraq.

For the majority, the order of Bremer

supposed the permanent unemployment.

Also it paralyzed the Iraqi government...

the educational system and the economy...

on having eliminated expert officials...

that joined the party...

only to survive

of Saddam.

Ambassadress Robin Raphel...

said to me:
" Have you seen this? ".

? ".

" Desbaazificacin ".

I read it superficially and said...

" I believe that we will not be able to do it ".

said:
" I believe that it is necessary to speak with Jerry ".

We went to see it and I said...

" Allow us to deal...

" to call Rumsfeld...

" to smooth it ".

He said:
" I do not have this flexibility.

" I have orders that to fulfill ".

The discussion was finished.

was coming to speak with me

in some moment...

I do not remember it, really that not.

does not remember that these people were saying...

- " are they from 30 to 50.000 persons "?

- It can that yes.

" What do you do? "

I alone...

It was working 20 hours a day

at that time.

It was not the only thing that it had to do...

in my first five days to the charge.

Bremer named Ahmed Chalabi...

chief of the commission of desbaazificacin.

Chalabi centred

in political rivals eliminate.

The desbaazificacin was so deep...

that we could not

to start the government...

in an effective way...

not with rapidity...

and there were many baazistas

without right to vote.

For what do we ask?

I work! I work!

...

although they were only professionals...

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

ADVISER OF BUSH:

... engineers, the directors.

The technocrats, the intelligence...

the librarians of school.

...

to have no means

to support your family...

it was a very humiliating experience.

But it was the third decision...

the one that it exploited in the hands.

To dissolve the Iraqi army

and the services of intelligence...

the most important institutions of Iraq.

The second order the CPA...

the Iraqi army dissolved,

...

and the secret police.

From the day until the morning, Bremer desemple...

and it angered to half a million

of armed men...

to more than five millions...

in the United States.

the rebellion, these men...

they created one.

DECLARATIONS:

IRAQI SOLDIERS.

I do not believe that they should do that.

Hundreds of thousands of families

they were depending on the army.

They had no income, had no providers.

We are hungry, there is no bread,

meal, money, we want to work.

Children, women, wives,

sisters, parents...

they stopped eating because

there was no sufficient money.

The official number of unemployment is 27 %.

I am sure that it is much more.

would say that between 40 % and 50 %.

that these people...

of that almost they had all

military training...

since the military service

it is obligatory in Iraq...

or they were active military men...

they were joining the rebellion...

of feeding his families...

something of pride.

After the Iraqi army dissolves...

Bremer was undoing a measurement...

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