Paul Bremer Confirmed to Face Democratic Committee!

[cynatnite]

C'mon, everybody: Let's get ready to rumble!

We've just confirmed that the former Bush-appointed leader of the U.S. rebuilding effort in Iraq will face his longtime critic before a panel of the Democratic-led Congress to answer questions about his leadership.

L. Paul Bremer, onetime head of the former Coalition Provisional Authority, responded positively to an invitation extended ten days ago to testify along with his chief critic, Iraq audit and investigation chief Stuart Bowen, before Rep. Henry Waxman's (D-CA) Government Reform Committee.

"He's confirmed," a Waxman spokesman told me this afternoon, referring to Bremer, who stepped down in June 2004. President Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom six months later, despite a long series of scathing reports by Bowen about mismanagement, waste, fraud and abuse among Bremer's staff.

It will be the first time Bremer and Bowen will testify together before Congress, according to Bowen spokeswoman Christine Belisle. Get your popcorn ready.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002440.php

[Greeby]

1. "Get your popcorn ready"

Will do :popcorn:

[malaise]

3. Butter please

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[wryter2000]

2. Good news

Rub his nose in his mess.

However, does it seem that what investigations that have gone on have been largely ignored? I hope I'm wrong about that.

[LSK]

4. "who gave you the Debathification orders?"

[LSK]

5. "who told you to disband the army?"

[porphyrian]

6. Oh yeah. And more to come. - n/t

[obnoxiousdrunk]

7. What was in that

suitcase when you left Iraq ? $$$$$$