AIPAC's man in Bagdhad - Bremer's mouthpiece

I am reading the turgid, badly written, wordy, " MyYear in Iraq ; The struggle to Build a Future of Hope" by superannuated ex-Ambassador and MD of Kissinger associates L.Pauk Bremner, the booted and suited pro-consul for the Empire in war torn Baghdad. (Review in Middle East Policy Council Journal by Robert Dreyfuss) ...

" ...Some would say that this was a period of just about nonstop bungling and mismanagement and that, if we have to blame anyone for it, we might as well blame Bremer. But Bremer disagrees and he takes more than 400 pages to do so." Quite

Arch neo-con and AIPAC acolyte Michael Rubin's review on the Amazon website ... "Bremer presided over the U.S. government's most ambitious reconstruction project since the Marshall Plan, but his lack of introspection, at least as chronicled in "My Year in Iraq," is striking. Events overwhelm and analysis falls short. Institutional and systematic problems within the CPA - including the dysfunctional relationship between Bremer and the U.S. military - go largely addressed. While historians will debate Bremer's record for many years to come, "My Year in Iraq" sheds considerably less light than one otherwise might wish. "

Today I picked up the June 8th copy of the NY Review of Books ...especially to read Michael Massing : consider "The truth about the Israel Lobby" in which he accuses academics Mearsheimer and Walt of not being investigative hournalists. He helps redress this by some of his own enquiries. I was much taken in the Bremer book, how the State bought a package , they got Bremer but they also got his security detail from Blackwater from his Kissinger days (did they ever stop?).

With Paul also came Dan Senor, as press spokesman, (A former Senior Associate at the Carlyle Group, Senor was briefly Scott McLellan's deputy as White House spokesman) introduced on page 57 sitting up all night co-ordinating things with Rimsfield's chief of staff Larry di Rita... pages 112 /3 has him complaining that the press don';t want "good news strories" ..

" we did get the choppers to carry the news media... the focus og their coverage was death and mayhem ..while they largely ignored progres son reconstruction and building the foundations of democracy" QED it's the Press's fault.

We have Dan (page 136) dropping cue cards making Bremer look "shifty" when adressin the Iraqis on TV, Page 235 Dan is rigging the stories that Douglas Fieth is not giving Paul a "ringing endorsement" as if that cocksucker would give anyone an even break.Page 279 and Senor hits Paul with the worst stroy ever .. that was to break in Baghdad " ... apparently some MP's guarding detainees forced them to engage in homosexual acts ... one was made to crawl around with a dog's leash .. " presumably Lindie England, the Dangerous Beauty living out her fantsasies under direction at at the taxpayer's cost. Curiously the snapper of all these hideous pics has never once been named, remarked upon - weren't they just as complicit in the crimes ?

Senor was on the case and Gen Kimmit announced an enquiry abour "reported incidents of detainee abuse" It was that afternoon that Paul was in the Oval Office with the Presient .. " I hope they find every last guilty person .. e've got to punish them as soon as possible "

Of course when the really BIG story broke and Saddam was found cowering, unprotected , alone in an underground cave, Senor was in Toronto... he doesn't get the credit for " Gentlemen ..WE gottim !"

Anyway Dan Senor ...who he ?

His sister is Wendy Singer Senor who is married to Saul Singer the editorial page director of the Jerusalem Post and friend (wouldja bleeve it ) of Daniel Pipes. Mr Perle is of course Director of the J Post.

Dan Senor completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Western Ontario and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

At some time he also filled in as an International Election Monitor based in Kiev and Kirovograd during the Ukrainian election.

Fox News has hired Senor as a "Fox News contributor." from Feb 2005.

Google appointed Dan Senor, the company's new Global Communications and Strategy VP, from May 2005. IN a news story about that one (anonymous writer) says "I have come to associate his triangular, brush-cut head with an unceasing stream of bullshit. He's Ari Fleischer without the charm." Google later said he would just do "contracting" work for them.

On 11th July 2006 he announced an engagement to NBC anchorlady Campbell Brown - Brown has covered major news events for the network, including the last two presidential elections, reporting from Baghdad during the first Iraqi elections and reporting from Iraq months earlier when the first American soldiers were court-martialed for abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. (pic the future Mrs Senor)

Meanwhile Dan also gets see his friend Joshua Bolten, Director of the Office of Management and Budget on a regular basis.

He did however get a spot (reported by Newshounds) on the Bill Maher show Feb 19th 2006 and revealed a rather tetchy streak when qiizzed about the way the CPA "lost" US$9BN".

Bill Maher started of by saying that there's been no accountability for the lost 9 billion dollars in Iraq. Bill added that Michael Jackson watches money more carefully than that. He asked, "How do you lose 9 billion dollars?" Maher said there were virtually CPA's with wheelbarrels full of $100 dolllar bills being carted around in Iraq after the 'Mission Accomplished' had been declared.

Dan Senor: So,here's what happened. It was a lot of Iraqi money (Comment: What? This was U.S. money given to Iraq) that was being disbursed quickly, so we could put Iraqi's back to work. We had a million and a half Iraqi's on the government payroll. We had to get the money out quickly. We could have waited and held back and not distributed the money and waited for auditors to be there and waited for first world accounting standards to be in place to prevent against this kind of fraud and hope that all that would be in place in time for all these million and a half Iraqis to storm the streets wondering why they and they're families weren't getting food on the table.(Comment: Weren't Iraqis looting, weren't they storming the streets already?)

So, we had to make the decision to get the money out quickly. In the process, it was a war zone with third war accounting standards, not first world.

Helen Thomas: It was fraud, though.

Dan Senor: (Raising his voice to a shout) It was not a fraud, it was a war zone.

Helen Thomas: With our auditing, with our accounting could we have (words overtalked, lots of overtalking)

Dan Senor: Because we arrived there, Helen, and it was a third world accounting system that we inherited from Saddam's government.

Helen Thomas: We have our own system.

Dan Senor: And you know how long that would have taken? Maybe 10 months, a year to get in place.