BAGHDAD, June 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Paul Bremer, the American civil administrator of Iraq, did not wait more than one hour to leave Iraq Monday after handing over the documents of power transfer to Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
 
    After being an absolute governor for 13 months and 16 days, Bremer gave way to John Negroponte, the new American ambassador to Iraq, to assume his position heading the biggest American embassy in the world.

    The 61-year-old man arrived in Iraq on May 12, 2003, one month and three days after the toppling of Saddam Hussein and his regime.

    Al Akhdhar Al Ibrahim, the UN envoy on Iraq, once described Bremer's ruling style as more dictator than Saddam. Many Iraqis thought Bremer left a Iraq that is sinking in its problems.

    "During the governing period of about 14 months, Bremer spent half of the time making wrong decisions, and the other half trying vainly to mend his mistakes," Salam Al Shamaa, editor of local newspaper Al Jareeda, told Xinhua.

    Some wrong decisions that Bremer took led to insecurity in the country, like dissolving the former army and security institutions and deposing the ministries of defense and information.

    Although Bremer did not control the American army, the scanda lof the US soldiers torturing Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraibprison and the proof that he knew about it added another black stain to his record.

    Bremer used to be director of the terror-fighting directory in US State Department, and former US President Ronald Reagan appointed him as travelling ambassador to fight terror in 1986.

    Bremer retired in 1989 and then joined the institution of consultations for the former US Secretary of State Department, Henry Kissinger.

    He reappeared in political field in 1999 when he was appointed as a joint president for the national committee of terrorism, which issued the report in the summer of 2000 to revise the American policy in fighting terror.

    When US President George W. Bush appointed Bremer as civil governor of Iraq, he described him as "a person who knows how to handle things," but what happened later in Iraq proved reversely.

    Western political analysts said Bremer was chosen for this position in Iraq because he was an expert in fighting terrorism and he would make Iraq a battlefield with terrorists, so as to take the battle away from the American homeland.

    If that was the aim of appointing Bremer in Iraq, he did it. Bremer was succeeded in taking terrorist attacks away from his country, but he made a safe country like Iraq a victim of terrorist operations that were never seen in its history.

    Bremer failed greatly to fight and eliminate terrorism and terrorists in Iraq, which became more powerful and organized than before.

During more than one year, the number of Iraqis who became enemies of America increased quickly after they have discovered the disadvantages of the occupation.

    Bremer said once that he was looking forward to leaving Iraq to be able to at last have a good sleep at night and write a book about his experience in Iraq.

    However, it is said that Bush would appoint Bremer as ambassador to Britain if he won the next presidential election. But observers think that the former Iraqi governor will not win this position. Enditem (By Muhsen Hussein, Laith Salman)