02674cam a2200313L  45000010006000000050017000060080041000230350024000640400022000880200015001100200018001250350021001430500030001640840021001942450108002152600043003233000019003665001052003855000361014375200352017985210013021506500035021636500020021986500044022186500034022626500022022967000018023187000024023364027720230410103856.0060203s2006    enk           000 u eng d  a(OCoLC)ocn474709378  aDKDLAbdancDKDLA  a0743273893  a9780743273893  a(OCoLC)47470937814a414 DS 79.769bB836m 2006  a956.7044300922z00aMy year in Iraq :bthe struggle to build a future of hope /cL. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell.  aLondon :bSimon & Schuster Ltd,c2006.  a417 s. :bill.  aWhen Paul 'Jerry' Bremer, a retired diplomat and counterterrorism expert, arrived in post-war Baghdad as 'pro-consul', he was shocked. His hurried briefings in Washington by the State and Defence Departments and the C.I.A. had not prepared him for the devastation, the chaos, and the violence. With security worsening, the Iraqi army having disappeared, no viable local currency, looters running wild, the electricity system down, food supply in jeopardy and factions of Kurds, majority Shia, and the newly dispossessed Sunnis at a political standoff demanding Iraq be turned over to them. Ambassador Bremer struggled to jumpstart the economy while putting the country on the road to democracy. Bremer describes his meetings with President Bush and multiple encounters with Rumsfeld, Rice and Powell in which he pushed for additional funds for Iraq's reconstruction and warned of the dangers of prematurely turning security over to untrained Iraqi security forces and turning governance over to exiles with no plan for a constitution or elections.  aHe describes working with Iraqi leaders on a constitution to protect individual rights and dramatizes the heroic efforts of his staff and Coalition forces to give the long-suffering Iraqi people a measure of peace and hope. Ambassador Bremer's book is vital reading if we wish to understand the immense stakes involved in this war and this troubled region.8 aDescribes working with Iraqi leaders on a constitution to protect individual rights and dramatizes the heroic efforts of the author's staff and Coalition forces to give the Iraqi people a measure of peace and hope. He presents an account of danger, chaos, and challenge in the Coalition's first year after the military victory over Saddam Hussein.8 ageneral. 4aPostwar reconstruction - Iraq. 4aIraq War, 2003. 4aIraq - Politics and government - 2003-. 0aPostwar reconstructionzIraq. 0aInsurgencyzIraq.1 aBremer, Paul.1 aMcConnell, Malcolm.