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Insurance that not, because in this case...

would have been going to see Jay immediately.

This idea occurred to them...

and it was recommended to Rumsfeld...

without speaking with anybody in Iraq

that was responsible...

of these matters?

It was hanging,

and, precisely, due to...

that only had been thought

for some days...

because Bremer was going away to Iraq

said to Rumsfeld...

" Before doing a recommendation,

I will speak with the people there ".

Bremer came to Baghdad on May 12.

His consultations with the people

in ground they were brief or nonexistent.

surprise it?

Had they commented on it to themselves?

Not, nobody said anything to me...

it was a big surprise.

- Seriously?

- Aha.

It never called Garner and said:

" We want to do this...

" does it look like to you a good idea? ".

I believe that not.

believe that this was an error?

Not.

think?

It looked like to me awful idea.

I believed that it was necessary to do the opposite.

The commanders of the army also

they were opposed to the decision of Bremer.

John Abizaid and Dave McKiernan

they were saying to me constantly...

" Do we worry?

" Let's reform the army ".

...

Iraqi soldiers

.

Not only it is worrying

for the safety...

but for the economy.

They already do not have a salary.

promises to be...

that the Iraqi army has been dissolved,

I remained without words.

In this epoch,

...

had not come to Iraq.

Colonel Hughes was the manager...

of treating with the Iraqi army...

because nobody

of his group of advice...

it had gone still to Iraq, included you.

did not think that it should

to have spoken with I on this matter?

- I spoke with I very much.

- It is curious.

says that the order to dissolve the army...

it was an entire surprise for I...

and that found out

for television in the airport.

That is... If that is like that...

I surprise it, but it is impossible.

...

Or, I spoke...

I...

We work together every day

while I was there.

- May 16 came.

- On May 16?

For a brief visit

of four days for the country.

Ah.

Then one went and did not return

until middle of June.

- Seriously?

- This way it is.

comment on it to himself?

Jay Garner and Paul Hughes were not

the only ones surprised by the order.

The idea of dissolving the whole army...

it took me as a surprise.

I see already.

Was CuI his reaction?

I thought that we had created a problem.

There were many unemployed soldiers.

The president had another idea...

that was to support assets

status.

- Earlier, yes.

- Yes.

Concerning a few days.

To the majority we surprised it a little...

or completely the dissolution of the army.

Secretary Powell knew it just as I.

How?

We find out the day...

that Jerry announced the dissolution.

- And Condoleezza Rice?

- That she speaks for yes same.

Condoleezza Rice refused

to be interviewed for this documentary.

How much did the president know...

on these decisions in advance?

I said already before s if Rumsfeld

had informed him or not.

It does not even design.

I was only two hours in the office...

a young military police officer came and said...

" Colonel Hughes,

there are some Iraqi officials...

" that want to speak with you ".

I was saying to myself: " Go for God.

" What am I going to say to them? ".

In the end I decided to go down...

and to meet with them

in the Palace of the Republic.

? ".

.

" I do not have it nor designs

from how has this arisen ".

said to me:
" All these soldiers

.

" Money does not come already to them.

" What are they going to do now? ".

Moan, carajo.

In July, 2003, the insurgents begin

to put explosives for the whole Iraq.

There is a big increase

of the soldiers of the USA.

How many times have I said it to you?

- Sh*t!

- Carajo!

Moan, my ear!

It is necessary to leave from here.

Some of them believe...

that the possibility exists

of that they attack us.

My response is that they dare.

I was going in the bucket.

The bucket is a vehicle

that is not armored.

, it is going to reach you.

Nobody wants to go there.

In 2003, only 1 of every 8 vehicles in Iraq

.

The explosion gave to me almost directly.

Then, I went out...

I started hearing shootings...

that were approaching ... bang, bang.

We start shooting.

We have a small problem

with some resistance...

...

that use military professional tactics...

to attack and to kill our soldiers,

as on the same morning.

- Not...

does not believe...

what is a coordinated campaign?

- Not, not...

- That is guerrillas...

in the phase of guerrilla war?

Because of this explosion...

I suffered an injury

cerebral traumatic sharp...

and I lost the perception

of the light in the right eye.

I suffered damages in the left eye...

that they caused

a hole to blacken in the retina...

but we fight, fight

up to the high place to the fire.

I was a gunner. My driver

it lost two legs...

and I went out flying of the car...

and I suffered a break of femur,

almost I lose the right arm...

me colaps a lung

and I had internal wounds in the head.

Since then,

I have looked in the dictionary...

some things, of which

I do not remember very much...

but one was a " guerrilla war "...

the different one was a " rebellion ", another age...

slightly conventional " war ". Pardon?

Impasse?

Not, of that another person takes charge...

I do not do these things.

I meet an expert

in counter-insurgency.

It was in the palace where

the CPA has his headquarters...

was speaking with a colonel of the army...

that was sitting down nearby

of the office of Bremer.

The word " rebellion " and the colonel used...

it raised the hand and said:

" In Iraq there is no rebellion.

" There is a high level of popular violence ".

The safety problem...

progressively it prevented us

to realize our work.

would have wanted to establish commissions

of advice in the quarters.

Three general managers...

they gave perhaps the presentation

more coherent on the structure...

and the organization

of a city of 1500 years...

.

One of them got overturned in a plan...

for the groups of advice.

It had designed a local democratization

.

It was a beautiful plan.

And:
what happened?

It was murdered.

The country descontrolaba more and more...

all the time,

and I believe that, somehow...

Bremer and his assistants did not know...

the bad thing on that the things were putting themselves

beyond the walls of containment.

THE PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY

OF THE COALITION

one

Palace of the Republic of Saddam...

the enclosure of the CPA,

called the Green space...

it was protected by 12 km from walls.

There were enormous lines of Iraqis,

engineers, officials...

JOURNALIS IN BAGHDAD FROM APRIL, 2003

They wanted to help, to translate...

In line on the verge of the palace...

they were making them wait and nobody was receiving them.

They were saying to them that they should and were doing not returning.

one, two...

three times and it is already.

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