Sorry if this is old news, but I was out of the country for two weeks and when I came back the administrator of Iraq had been replaced. Did he do something wrong? Politics? Health reasons? Violate the dress code? What’s the straight dope?
When Gen Garner took the Iraq job, it was only to be for 3 months, perhaps shorter.
“The appointment of someone like Bremer had been planned all along, Garner said, and Garner himself was always intended to be in Iraq temporarily. “I’ll stay a while. There’s got to be a good handoff,” he said.”
White was fired a LONG time ago, actually, for stock-related misdeeds. But no replacement was named until recently, so he was still on the job.
I have seen some classify Bremer’s appointment as a victory for Colin Powell and the State Dept. (over Rummy and the Pentagon). But it’s true that Garner was not supposed to be a permanent fixture. This may have come a bit sooner than planned, though.