Jay Garner Quotes
We’d continue to pay them. Using army allows us not to demobilize it immediately and put a lot of unemployed people on the street.
Jay Garner, Army Lieutenant General, Director of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq, Plan for post-war Iraq, 2003, Quoted in Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco- The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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3 years later he led America on a huge invasion and nation building project in Iraq. It turned out that had he listened to his own advice and not flip-flopped, the huge cost of the Iraq War might have been avoided.
Rumsfeld wanted Defense Department people running and controlling the civilian government of Iraq after our invasion. General Garner, who was the American appointee to run the civilian government until the Iraqis could have elections wanted State Department, Justice Department and other non military personnel run Iraq.
He was the spokesperson for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the Administration’s Iraq War effort. It has never been ascertained whether the George W. Bush Administration was deliberately lying about the Iraq invasion or whether they were terribly naïve and not very competent.
She was referring to the aftermath of the Iraq War.
The Progressive article was an interview with Movie Director and Screenwriter Oliver Stone who told the interviewer that he had learned of this quotation when he did his research for his film, South of the Border where he had several interviews with President Kirchner.
The South then had the poorest education in the country and recovery from the Great Depression was made easier by a workforce that was educated enough to handle many of the new jobs and new techniques of doing the old jobs. And that was where the South lagged. The small farms which were the mainstay of the Southern economy were by then far less important as agriculture was undergoing major changes, technological and ecoomic, with many small farmers leaving the farms for the factories if they could.
Jay Montgomery Garner is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who in 2003 was appointed as Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq but was soon replaced by Ambassador Paul Bremer and the ambassador's successor organization to ORHA, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA).
