Confident Bremer hurries away from Baghdad, via the back door

[kskiska]

Just two hours after he signed over America's sovereignty of Iraq, Paul Bremer, the proconsul of the occupation, climbed the steps of a US Air Force C-130 transport aircraft to take his last flight out of Iraq.

He turned at the top step to wave for a final photograph and then, 14 months after he first arrived, he was gone.

Mr Bremer, 62, spent barely 20 minutes in yesterday's hurried and hidden ceremony restoring power to an Iraqi government.

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As with the entire handover ceremony, it was almost entirely hidden from public view: the US administration hoped to avoid similarities with the image of the last Huey taking off from the US embassy in Saigon in April 1975 that came to symbolise America's defeat in Vietnam.

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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Gotta love the headline.

"...via the back door."

(And the Huey symbolism will happen later.)

[bluestateguy]

2. He's a certifiable coward

This guy can't take a piss without being escorted by his goons from Blackwater Security, nor has he ever spent any time with ordinary Iraqis who are not political or religious elites.

[Roy]

3. Does Iraqi prisoners count?

I'm sure he looked in on some of the Iraqi prisoners to insure they were tucked in.
/sarcasm