paul bremer the third. >> well, i was contacted by two people: paul wolfowitz, who was deputy secretary of defense, scooter libby, who was the vice president's chief of staff, both of whom i had known for decades. >> bremer is old friends with scooter libby, who is cheney's chief of staff. and libby put bremer's name forward. and bremer was sort of the right kind of conservative. >> narrator: in bremer, cheney had given secretary rumsfeld a businessman, a diplomat, managing director of kissinger and associates. >> here's a guy who had worked for henry kissinger but doesn't know a whole lot about the middle east, doesn't speak arabic, doesn't know the region. >> what he lacked was the practical experience, and it was that lack of experience that commended him, in large measure, to the bush administration. >> today, it's my honor to announce that jerry bremer has agreed to become the presidential envoy to iraq. >> narrator: president bush made it official: bremer was now in charge of the occupation. after a two-week crash course on middle eastern politics, he arrived in iraq to head what

people in fact it split them into first rate and second rate citizens for instance decisions by paul bremer is occupational authority like destroying the baath party dismissing the iraqi army and shutting down iraqi public institutions were wrong the way the government implemented all that was very harmful. to annihilate the party was taken as an order to annihilate sonic's people in western bend and then forgotten or their country did nothing for them and did not protect their rights so they took to the streets the protests continued for over a year the iraqi government paid no attention to them its it was too overwhelmed with its military potential too busy equipping and training the army but it overlooked the fact that these masses could become infuriated. in which case no military force would stop the authorities do it with those demonstrations. strongly over sixty people were killed and. as well as in fallujah and other cities soldiers storming the square's another ramadi became the final straw sunni it's turned into a movement generating mechanism ready to fight against the government

. >> the story begins in june 2004, when presidential envoy paul bremer turned over authority to the interim iraqi government, which would run the country until elections could be held. [gunfire] >> the insurgency was already gaining momentum. and with the, then newly constituted iraqi army riding into battle in unarmored pickup trucks, and scrounging for guns and ammunition, the iraqi defense ministry went on a billion dollar buying spree with almost no oversight. the contracts were paid in advance with no guarantees, and most of them involved a single company. >> there were awarded without any bidding to a company that was established a few months prior with a total capital of $2,000. so you had nearly a billion dollars worth of contracts awarded to a company that was just a paper company whose directors had nothing to do with the ministry of defense or the government of iraq. >> the name of that company was alain al jaria, which in arabic means the ever-flowing spring. it's address, here in amman, jordan was a post office box. it's telephone number, a mobile phone. the principal w