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Iraqi pol bitches about Baathists being purged
A senior Iraqi politician Wednesday criticized the United States for planning to purge thousands of top Baathists from office, warning the policy would force some to go underground and wage a terrorist fightback. Iyad Allawi said heavily armed Baathists were already forming clandestine groups, having prepared for the post-Saddam Hussein era six months before the war.
And that means we should leave them in their jobs? Does that make sense to anyone else? (I thought not...)
Allawi, leader of the Iraqi National Accord (INA) who returned from long exile after Saddam was toppled in April, said the US-led administration should go after the criminal elements in the Baath but spare the innocent majority. Bremer's staff plan to vet some 15,000-30,000 people from the top four ranks of Saddam's former ruling Baath Party, out of a total membership of up to 700,000.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-05-22
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=14576