U.S. administrator to Iraq, Ambassador Paul Bremer, was tasked with the immense job of overseeing the creation of a new democracy in Iraq. In just 13 months his job as leader of the 'Coaliton Provisional Authority' was to create a new government and something approaching stability in the wake of the coaliton overthrow of Saddam Hussein in the spring of 2003. Whether working out of the former Republican Palace in Baghdad, or travelling through the perilous roads in many cities around the country including Baghdad, Bremer was responsible for everything from making sure the electricity was on, to putting together a new central bank, to coming up with a workable political system in a country where politics for years had come at the end of a barrel of a gun. On June, 28, 2004, two days earlier than scheduled, Bremer handed over a country plagued by a rising insurgency, suicide bombings and continued chaos to Interim President Iyad Allawi. He flew safely home to America on a C-17 and said he looked forward to retiring in Vermont and taking gourmet cooking classes.

Here, Ambassador Paul Bremer speaks to two women while he visits a site where a mass grave of Saddam Hussein's regime victims were found last year in the Iraqi city of Hilla, 100 km south of Baghdad on June 27, 2004