Tom Lacey writes on social and politcal issues. He has a Ph.D. in Political Economy from the New School for Social Research, New School University in NYC, 1982. He is also active in social causes and community groups. After teaching at the university level for a number of years, he went into private business and owns a computer store in St. Petersburg, Florida. He also likes art, candid pictures and making web sites. He is married and has three children at Gerorgia Tech. Pictured here with messy hair and an animal.

My passion is ...

fast painting and long winded writing

I know too much about ...

computers

My parents always told me ...

stay out of jail

My childhood ambition ...

world chess champion

My favorite memory ...

Talking to Harriet, one of the original Hippies in San Fancisco

Why I write ...

to improve my mind

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Simone de Beauvoir

My first job ...

Assisant Professor of Economics

My best moment ...

Organizing an antiwar protest and writing letters for peace

My inspiration ...

Emma Goldman

Politics, News & Issues > War in Iraq Book reviews: My Year in Iraq, by Paul Bremmer

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Some Thoughts on Paul Bremer's "My Year in Iraq"

I am reading L. Paul Bremmer's My Year in Iraq. If we take it at face value, it explains how the Bush administration was really interested in establishing democracy in Iraq after the invasion. For instance, group of 8 exiles the US facilitated to return to Iraq were thought to be too narrow a governing body. The US wanted to expand it into a Governing Council of 25, but with a Shia majority. It "was assumed" that there should be a Shia majority because the Shia were 60 percent of the population.

The only problem with this was that it e...

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