Who's in charge ireveals what lies ahead in the alleged democratization of Iraq:

So what are (L. Paul) Bremer?s qualifications? He is a figure whose entire career is bound up with, on the one hand, national security, intelligence and US military aggression; and, on the other, servicing the needs of US-based multinational corporations.

Nothing could more clearly define the type of regime that Washington aims to establish in Iraq. Its overriding task will be to ruthlessly suppress the mass opposition of the Iraqi people and facilitate the looting of the country?s wealth by the US banks and big business.

And then there is Number Two, General Jay Garner, USA, ret.:

The general began his military career as a US Army “advisor” supervising the “strategic hamlet” program during the Vietnam War in which tens of thousands of Vietnamese peasants were forced off their land and driven into concentration camps surrounded by barbed-wire. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Garner commented: “If President Bush had been president we would have won” the Vietnam War, adding that the US could have invaded the North. Full story>>