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| Former NY Police Commish to head Iraq’s ministry of interior | |
| 2003-05-17 | |
| EFL Former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik said last night that he expects to go to Iraq next week to become the head of the ministry of the interior for the Pentagon's reconstruction team. A White House spokesman said he was unable to confirm the appointment but added: "White House officials praised Kerik as a fine public servant and top-notch law enforcement officer." Sources said that Kerik, who served as police commissioner under former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, was contacted directly by the White House to assume the law-enforcement job in Iraq. After New York City, Iraq should be a snap. "I will be there at least six months - until the job is done," Kerik said. Kerik, who now works as an anti-terrorism expert for Giuliani's consulting firm - Giuliani Partners - rushed to the World Trade Center with the former mayor on Sept. 11, 2001, and was at the base of Tower Two when the second jetliner crashed into the skyscraper. OK, we can stop worrying about Iraqi lawlessness now. Not quite as brilliant as having Giuliani run the country, but it'll do.
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| #4 I like the suggestion about training and arming the women and giving them a sense of independance and basic civil rights. Then turn them loose when they've got PMS, and get out of the way. |
| Posted by: Anonymous Troll 2003-05-17 18:57:02 |
| #3 And let's make sure that the electricity and water systems are up to pre-war levels in Baghdad. Read a New York Post article the other day by John Foreman, and according to him, the combat troops are putting in 18 hours a day patrolling and nabbing perps. The Civil Affair guys, mostly reservists, are out of the office by 5 and unavailable until the next morning. The striking thing about the article is that the trigger men have so much empathy with the population, the guys who should don't. I've never been in the military, but have known lots of retired guys, and the good, hardworking ones were the trooper kind and the assholes were the civil affair types. Let's not screw it up, guys. |
| Posted by: michael 2003-05-17 16:09:49 |
| #2 watch out for those Mullahs: you do NOT want another Islamofascist state. Train and arm the women and give them a sense of independance and basic civil rights. That will change the culture from the ground up. |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-05-17 09:51:30 |
| #1 Actually, Giuliani is already down in Mexico - they've got it as bad - so this is the best that could be done under these conditions. Ignore foreign/domestic criticism of "installing" him, round up as many of those 100,000 criminals given amnesty by Saddam last year as possible, and we've got it made :) |
| Posted by: Lu Baihu 2003-05-17 08:23:52 |