Reply #2: Bernie didn't try very hard when he was in Iraq. [View All]

[tanyev]

Book Says Bernie Kerik Grandstanded then Left Iraq

Disgraced ex-Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik went to Iraq in 2003 to restore law and order, but instead signed autographs and gave press conferences as a celebrity 9/11 hero, former colleagues charge.

After arriving in Baghdad's protected Green Zone in May 2003, Kerik was supposed to take over the occupation's Interior Ministry and train hundreds of cops to stabilize the country.

Kerik later boasted that he reestablished the Iraqi police force - yet he only added 100 men to Baghdad's Finest, a new book says.

They were in a tiny paramilitary unit that nabbed a few kidnappers and car thieves in a city teeming with insurgents, Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran writes in "Imperial Life in the Emerald City."

Just 105 days after he arrived, Kerik abruptly left Baghdad on a CIA flight, sources told the Daily News. He landed in Amman, Jordan, before jetting to Europe - where he went to "decompress," Kerik later said.

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