What's next?" it's jerry bremer's mantra, his passion. Dreamy visions for Iraq's future, once so much part of the war rhetoric in Washington, only irk him at this late stage. "Schedule, schedule, schedule-that's what I want," Bremer raps out. "I want benchmarks for the number of days. I need a chart of what tasks are falling behind." There are so many tasks. He's training Iraq's new police, civil-defense force and Army. He's creating village councils, an anticorrupption agency and inspector-general offices. Hospitals, schools and sewage lines. In all, an astonishing 17,500 projects so far.
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