Draft Bill approved to hire Baathists (What's old is new again)

The removal of The BaathParty was a mistake, which became apparentand common knowledge months ago when Paul Bremer (former administrator ofthe Coalition Provisional Authority) (CPA) testified at a congressional hearingback in February.

Bremer said he was wrong to temporarily stop paying salaries andpensions to former Iraqi army officers. He added that Iraqis went too far withhis order to purge members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party from the government.

"I acknowledge I made mistakes," Bremer said. "But on thewhole, I believe we made great progress under some of the most difficultconditions imaginable." Readon...

Removal of The Baathists is considered one of Bush'sbiggest mistakes.

“It is one of the darkest aspects of Iraq,” Iyad Allawi, the former PrimeMinister, said yesterday. “It has caused mass emigration from the country anddeprived the Establishment of trained manpower.”

After all these months, and all of the "experts" acknowledging thefact it was a mistake, a "draft bill" was finally approved thatwould give thousands of Baathists jobs. ("draft" operative word)

BAGHDAD -- Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's cabinet approved a U.S.-backeddraft oil law and the Parliament is expected to start discussing it next week,government officials said Monday.

The U.S. has pressed Mr. Maliki's government to pass the oil law and severalother pieces of benchmark legislation to spur reconciliation among the country'ssectarian and ethnic groups. The oil law is especially important to Sunni Arabs,who populate regions of Iraq that are largely without oil resources. Readon...

I personally do not believe The U.S. pressed anything, I think theyare just running out of ideas and this was the smart move by default. The administration didn't listen to anyone, commanders were fired because they didn't "agree" with the admin., conservative talking heads claimed them "incompetent". It's all a bunch of crap!

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[granny]

It's all a bunch of crap!