Iraqi re-Baathification law not being implemented.
Iraqi re-Baathification law not being implemented.
In January, the Iraqi parliament passed a nominal re-Baathification law that was meant to allow thousands of former Baathists to join the Iraqi government. Conservatives and war hawks loudly touted the law’s passage as a sign of success in Iraq. But, as Reuters reported yesterday, the law is not being implemented:
But five months later, implementation of the law is bogged down by infighting between politicians, and the committee once tasked with hunting out Baathists in government has found itself in the odd position of overseeing the process of rehiring them or offering them state pensions.
The government has still not appointed a seven-member panel to replace the deBaathification Committee, whose enthusiastic purge of Baathists from government posts prompted minority Sunni Arabs to accuse them of conducting a witch-hunt.
Juan Cole writes that though the Reuters story is “a refutation of the whole Kagan-Bush-McCain victory narrative of the ’surge’ or troop escalation,” he doesn’t expect it to be “even be mentioned on American television.”
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Larry Sinclair arrested.
http://reason.com/blog/show/127093.html
June 18th, 2008 at 9:40 pmshould we also expect a re-assembly of iraq’s army as well? – so basically everything that the admininstration-appointed CPA implemented,lead by Paul Bremer, was a collossal blunder and after 5 years of chaos and wasted lives, is it decided that they should slowly return to life as it originally was?
June 18th, 2008 at 10:04 pmIn January, the Iraqi parliament passed a nominal re-Baathification law that was meant to allow thousands of former Baathists to join the Iraqi government. Conservatives and war hawks loudly touted the law’s passage as a sign of success in Iraq. But, as Reuters reported yesterday, the law is not being implemented.
Iraq is broken and fixing it is going to require fixing a lot of issues in the region. It will take time and negotiation with all of the players in the Middle East. What isn’t going to work is demonizing, sabre rattling and the general denial of reality that plagues authoritarian regimes like Bush’s. Finding common ground is the only path to peace but “leaders” like Bush only know how to exacerbate differences.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
June 18th, 2008 at 10:07 pmLarry Sinclair arrested..Is it friday already? His lawyer came wearing a Kilt because he was well endowed..Jeez this is like right out of the National Enquirer.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:16 pmBut of course, the trolls will be here soon asking why we never report on all the good things in Iraq.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:25 pm[Juan Cole] doesn’t expect it to be “even be mentioned on American television.”
The Bush-hating liberal media strikes again!
/sarc off
June 19th, 2008 at 12:58 amprobably had a nice subjective term like “substantially baath” in there to mix things up and create a huge grey zone
June 19th, 2008 at 7:58 amhussein toasterhead Says:
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But of course, the trolls will be here soon asking why we never report on all the good things in Iraq.
rogerse Says:
Signs are emerging that Iraq has reached a turning point. Violence is down, armed extremists are in disarray, government confidence is rising and sectarian communities are gearing up for a battle at the polls rather than slaughter in the streets.
Those positive signs are attracting little attention in the United States, where the war-weary public is focused on the American presidential contest and skeptical of talk of success after so many years of unfounded optimism by the war’s supporters.
Unquestionably, the security and political situation in Iraq is fragile. U.S. commanders warn repeatedly that security gains are reversible.
Still, Iraq is by almost any measure safer today than at any time in the past three years. Fears that the country will disintegrate have receded — though they have not disappeared.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:04 am
June 19th, 2008 at 9:22 am