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Miranda Ruling

by West Virginia Rebel

And here’s some more good news:

WASHINGTON — One of Washington’s most prominent conservative lawyers, sent to Iraq to help the fledgling democracy develop its legal and judicial institutions, has charged in a blistering memo to U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker that the State Department and Foreign Service have “brought to Iraq the worst of America — our bureaucrats” and become “an albatross around the neck of the Coalition command.”

Manuel A. Miranda, a former counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, spent the last year as a State Department contract employee at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. His official title was Senior Advisor for Legislative Framework in the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office.

In a ten-page memo obtained by FOX News, Miranda told Crocker the career diplomats tasked with helping the Iraqi government meet its legislative and institution-building benchmarks “are simply not up to the task,” that due to a “unionized attitude” and “built-in attention deficit disorder” at the Foreign Service and State Department headquarters, “hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted and poorly managed.”

“Any American graduate school study group could do better,” Miranda wrote.

Miranda lauded the security gains made by commanding Gen. David Petraeus and coalition forces, but charged their civilian counterparts have failed, through ineptitude and a lack of coordination with the Iraqis and each other, to capitalize on those gains.

“[T]he few civilian accomplishments that we are presently lauding, including the debathification [sic] law and the staffing of PRT’s [provincial reconstruction teams] are a thin reed. It was regrettable to see the President recently grab on to it.”

A little corruption goes a long way. Of course I’m sure Bush would say that Crocker was doing a heckuva job.

Comments

Posted by on 03/27/08 at 04:25 PM from

It’s not Crocker fault, it’s Bremmers!
(remembers the national freedom medal), wait,wait, make that Jay Garners fault!

Posted by HARLEY on 03/27/08 at 06:59 PM from

the career diplomats tasked with helping the Iraqi government meet its legislative and institution-building benchmarks “are simply not up to the task,” that due to a “unionized attitude” and “built-in attention deficit disorder” atthe Foreign Service and State Department headquarters, “hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted and poorly managed.”
the highlighted words DO say a LOT.

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