Kicking the Last Leg Out From Under the Iraqi Chair
The Pentagon, no doubt while Robert Gates was busy elsewhere, trying along with Condi Rice to rekindle a sense of bi-partisan goals between Russia and the United States, was up to mischief in Iraq. Serious stuff--the kind of decision-making that characterized the early blunders by L. Paul Bremer, for which we are still paying a huge price.
The Pentagon, no doubt while Robert Gates was busy elsewhere, trying along with Condi Rice to rekindle a sense of bi-partisan goals between Russia and the United States, was up to mischief in Iraq. Serious stuff--the kind of decision-making that characterized the early blunders by L. Paul Bremer, for which we are still paying a huge price.
Someone over at the Pentagon may be trying to set themselves up for a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Walter Pincus, over at the Washington Post reports
In August, the U.S. military requested bids on a new biometric credential system to provide identification cards for three Iraqi government ministries.
Identification…