After the committee chairman, California Democrat Henry Waxman, said that
continuing to pay ghost employees struck him as reckless, Bremer responded
that the only alternative, as he saw it, was "74,000 armed men who are
angry at us," if payments were held up for any reason. "I would certainly
do it again today."

Waxman also questioned the wisdom of sending billions in cash to Baghdad -
363 tons of bills, sent in enormous pallets via military planes and passed
out from the back of pickup trucks.

But Bremer, unruffled throughout the hearing, said he was responding to an
urgent request from the Iraqi minister of finance, who wanted the cash
delivered ahead of the planned handoff to his own government.
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