IRONY

James Joyner | Friday, September 26, 2003

Paul Bremer knows it all too well:

Berated for months by Iraqis over power cuts, the top U.S. administrator in Baghdad returned to Washington this week to find that Hurricane Isabel had knocked out electricity to his own family’s home.

Paul Bremer told a Senate committee meeting on Wednesday, “As millions of American households, including the Bremer household, have learned in recent days, it is almost impossible to live in the modern world without dependable electricity,”

Asked by Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden whether he was looking forward to going back to Iraq, Bremer quipped he had a better power supply in Baghdad than Washington, where power companies are still struggling to restore power to thousands of homes cut when Isabel roared through last Thursday.

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.

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