there and we were going to set up an interim government as rapid as we could, but when ambassador bremerat direction change. >> instead of quickly handing off power to a new iraqi government and getting out, the bush administration selects former ambassador l. paul bremer to take over in iraq and remake iraq's entire economy, starting with the oil sector. >> we're not here to be a colonial power. we're here to help turn over as quickly as we can efficiently do it to the iraqi people their country. >> we had virtually no elbow room for major changes to anything unless we could get the oil going, and that was our priority. >>> may. two months into the invasion of iraq. george w. bush selects former u.s. ambassador l. paul bremer to be the top civilian in charge in iraq. >> ambassador goes with the full blessings of this administration and the full confidence of all of us in this administration that he can get the job done. >> at the top of the list for bremer is oil. >> i had been told we had to get the oil going because it was an oil-dominated economy. this was fairly straightforward. unl

there and we were going to set up an interim government as rapid as we could, but when ambassador bremer change. >> instead of quickly handing off power to a new iraqi government and getting out, the bush administration selects former ambassador l. paul bremer to take over in iraq and remake iraq's entire economy, starting with the oil sector. >> we're not here to be a colonial power. we're here to help turn over as quickly as we can efficiently do it to the iraqi people their country. >> we had virtually no elbow room for major changes to anything unless we could get the oil going, and that was our priority. could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know pinocchio was a bad motivational speaker? i look around this room and i see nothing but untapped potential. you have potential. you have...oh boy. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. and his new boss told him two things -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef

paul bremer to be the top sieve ville wrcive in iraq. >> ambassador goes with the full blessings of thisnce of all of us in this administration that he can get the job done. >> at the top of the list for bremer is oil. >> i had been told we had to get the oil going because it was an oil-dominated economy. this was fairly straightforward. unless you can get the oil going, you can't get the economy going. >> what bremer and his team find when they get into iraq is an oil infrastructure decimated by decades of war, sanctions, and corruption. >> i was shocked when i got there about how undercapitalized it had been, how neglected it was. >> the oil fields were being held together by baling wire and duct tape, in some cases literally duct tape. >> the day after bremer arrives, guidelines -- privatize state-owned enterprises in iraq, including the oil industry. >> oil was the lifeblood of the iraqi economy. you got to get the oil going if you're going to get the economy going. it was not something we were going for selfish american reasons or because we wanted more oil on the world market or al

and instead, bremer disbanded it. in his memoirs he said, i was just acknowledging the obvious that the soldiers had taken off the uniforms and gone over it's a pretty disingenuous statement because what he doesn't say is they take up their weapons from within. and that hadn't wanted to bring them back and call them back to the callers can we could've. how do i know? because when it was pointed out to brimmer that we now have several hundred thousand armed young men without jobs on the streets, he decided that we would offer them back pay and they could come and click the back they and the second, and that would give them something with which they could start their new lives. they all showed up. it would've been very easy to have a recruiting table right there saying we want to continue your job, help guard your country, prevent looting and so forth, we wouldn't have gotten all of them but we would have gotten a significant portion and we would not have had to re-create the iraqi security forces. what this did not onl

i asked its president, ian bremer, whether this is the beginning of the end of china's growth spurt. >> we are seeing the end of the period of state-fixed investment in infrastructure driving the growth. there's real economic reform happening. it's transforming that society towards being focussed on consumption. it is important to do. it's critical if they want to become an advanced economy, but it's dangerous, because it means taking money away from inefficient state and enterprise, taking control away of the financial sector, allowing bankruptcy, meaning powerful people are losers. and that meanings president jiangxi may have pushback. there'll be risk in the kind of reforms we have not seen in deck outside. >> is there a cost if china's economy goes down, maybe they'll buy our stuff, travel to the west. >> that's little cost. certainly you're not going see purchasing of commodities. things like copper and steel that they don't need like they used to. the level of growth, the reduction is modest. it's been very incremental. the risk is that the experiment doesn't work and the respo

and instead, bremer disbanded it. now, in his memoirs he says i was just acknowledging the obvious because the soldiers had taken off their uniforms and had gone home. but it's a pretty disingenuous statement because they had also, what he doesn't say is they had taken their weapons home with them. and that had we wanted to call them back to the colors, we could have. how do i know that? because when it was pointed out to bremer that we now had several hundred thousand armed young men without jobs on the streets, he decided that we would offer them back pay and that they could come and collect their back pay and a stipend, and that would give them something with which to start their new lives. they all showed up. it would have been very easy to have a recruiting table right there saying you want to continue your job, help guard your country, prevent the looting, so forth, and we wouldn't have gotten all of them, but we would have gotten a significant portion, and we wouldn't have had to start to recreate the iraqi sec

and paul bremer created the military bases for the insurgency. 24 people decided to break up the iraq government and they had to create three ministries so mechanism member could have a ministry they could control. they fired everybody and packed people with their ministry. and the little confidence in the iraq government that was left was done away with by this decision. so these were the -- this set the political bases for the down turn in iraq. i think it is my contention we created the mess. first by illconsidered invasion and then our decisions in the mo post-war period. i love the american general planning their calendar and every day it says kill something and eat it. it says something about the army in the beginning. it was operationally great and didn't know a lot about counter insurgency. so the idea of raids after raid and not a lot of thought putting into the other aspects of counter insurgency that we did become good at, but not in 2003. so what -- we were there now and things were spiraling downward. and what were we going to do? that is a good question. we lacked strate

and paul bremer created the military bases for the insurgency. 24 people decided to break up the iraq government and they had to create three ministries so mechanism member could have a ministry they could control. they fired everybody and packed people with their ministry. and the little confidence in the iraq government that was left was done away with by this decision. so these were the -- this set the political bases for the down turn in iraq. i think it is my contention we created the mess. first by illconsidered invasion and then our decisions in the mo post-war period. i love the american general planning their calendar and every day it says kill something and eat it. it says something about the army in the beginning. it was operationally great and didn't know a lot about counter insurgency. so the idea of raids after raid and not a lot of thought putting into the other aspects of counter insurgency that we did become good at, but not in 2003. so what -- we were there now and things were spiraling downward. and what were we going to do? that is a good question. we lacked strate

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we don't know but bremer in my view clearly did not push back at all. >> research fellow at the national security program here. he never mentions of popular it -- population at the time after 2006 there was significant displacements and segregation of population separate from sectarian. i would argue that was one of the other variables because the populations were sold segregating themselves so moving on a fixed neighborhoods into city or share it -- should she get areas and i am not sure i disagree with the general argument i just wonder why you stick with such a model causal story it is interesting without those other variables would it have been possible and why take was all of those others the awakening, the displacement, of violence reaching a saturation point had to have been there too had the effect that had. >> of the first one of the slide of sectarian violence the population displacement why was there so much as no sectarian violence and why did it continue? we went door to door at least in baghdad with this great new clarity is a lot more mixing of the sect even before the sur

for more on the crisis in ukraine and president obama's management i'm joined by ambassador paul bremer, former chairman of the bipartisan national commission on terrorism and ambassador for the netherlands. and ambassador william court academy, former u.s. ambassador to khazakhstan and georgia and russia, ukraine and eurasian affairs under president clinton. president obama ramp up sanctions on thursday, congress threatened to add its own. moscow threatened to retaliate by imposing sanctions on individuals. if you look at the numbers, e.u.'s trade dies are worth 440 billion in trade between russia and the u.s. if the e.u. doesn't jump on effective. >> it can, it's not a question of looking at trade, the most important ones which we have not talked about are financial sanctions, an ability to tie up russia's capacity to send money. it's the major sanction that brought the iranians to the negotiating table. there are other things we can do. it would be useful to have the europeans joining us in a broad crisis. >> if the europeans don't jump on bored the money goes through london. would u

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just earlier the this morning maria bartiromo sat down with ian bremer to discuss those sanctions' long-term impact on the situation this ukraine. >> no matter what the u.s. does, the importance of the ukraine to putin and to the russian people is vastly greater than the ability of the americans or the europeans to mete out punishment, economic punishment. so we're not in a stable place. the russians do not recognize this ukrainian government, and they have relatively good reasons for that. the americans do not recognize, the europeans do not recognize crimea as part of russia which it formally is according to putin today, and we have very good reasons for that. we're not coming to diplomacy here. we're in an impasse, and we're still in escalation mode. cheryl: despite russia's occupation of crimea, i ukraine's interim prime minister signing a pact with the e.u. adam: turkey tweeting in turkey is now illegal. the prime minister there has instituted a ban on the popular social network as his administration fights corruption allegations. not surprisingly, proponents of free speech were outrage

bremer is saying the following. just to quote him from last evening a nice slow, curve to the west. he continued. these are not dramatic turns. so would not have been the former. it would have been more in this direction. now where does that lead us. this is what brenner was saying. at 1:07 a.m., okay? i will try the best i can with the drawing. depend how much picks up. scratch that. at 1:07 a.m., okay, the new flight plan was picked up. that is the, that's the communication that the plane sends, satellites and also perhaps back to the airport in kuala lumpur, even to an airport in vietnam or thailand. at 1:19, 12 minutes later, the copilot sound off, all right. good night. remember the nice slow curve to the west now, brenner. dramatic turns. advance it one time. initially serve area, gulf of thailand, south china sea, andaman sea. this area here, 1:067 a.m., if it made a nice slow turn, where did it go? now we have a go to a nice slow turn in this direction. that is one of the working theories right now where the plane could have flown. the other working theory is down here into

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the genius commission in this to bring you my regarding the illegitimacy of the decisions made by bremer and also i gave instructions to address. or parliamentary assembly of the c.i.s. regarding. monitoring that. illegitimacy low fullness self that is a c.-h. since no made in ukraine and current laws there thank you. from the head of the russian state to do you mad and the duma is actually about to appeal to the president of the russian federation to take measures to help stabilize the situation in crimea and to protect the russian population there as well and continue to monitor the situation in ukraine that and to monitor the current. procedures in ukraine and to appeal to european institutions to stabilize the situation in ukraine as well as in crimea of course we keep a very close eye on what's going on in ukraine and we'll be back in about seven minutes time stay with us here on all seem to national next day breaking decides on they were spying program that time to into millions of people's webcams. be friday everyone i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set well i've got a gre

bremer each and every day. can you have mints and brics?look at is how good are the policymaking teams in these countries? what is their capacity to carry out reforms? with the mint, you have widely divergent political situations. has this, pena nieto mandate for reform and it may be a love affair syndrome, i completely agree with you, but there is the agenda -- >> what's wrong with a love affair, jim? >> having been in finance for 30-odd years -- >> you don't want love. >> there is the lazy consensus. for able tohat much start thinking of less. an entirely separate issues of economics and markets as well. what alex is saying is right. when the circumstances get tougher, how good is your policy? >> jim o'neill and alex kliment with us and we will come back on russia, the debate we had moments ago. adam? >> our twitter question of the day. you already know who jim o'neill coined the term bric in 2001 and now mint. >> bbc journalism. >> bbc journalism training. ♪ >> good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance." i'm tom keene. with me, sca