of that colossal misjudgment? He was awarded the Medal of Freedom, as were then-General Tommy Franks and former Coalition Provisional Authority head Paul Bremer. "These EFTA00652593 three men symbolize the nobility of public service, the good character of our country, and the good influence of America on

ar historian John Lewis Gaddis, and where he gave an invite-only talk just a year ago — one has to ask why he and sifting proudly in the third row, Paul Bremer, the "Administrator" of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, the man who de-Baathified the country, threw millions of people out of work, an

of that colossal misjudgment? He was awarded the Medal of Freedom, as were then-General Tommy Franks and former Coalition Provisional Authority head Paul Bremer. "These three men symbolize the nobility of public service, the good character of our country, and the good influence of America on the world," sai

American mistakes" in Iraq. The rebels have pointedly ruled out a repeat of the first days of the occupation of Iraq, when Washington's proconsul, Paul Bremer, sacked hundreds of thousands of soldiers, policemen and civil service managers and technicians, leaving the country with no one to run utilities an