Iraqi Lawmakers Pass Key Benchmark De-Baathification Law

Fox New ^ | 01-12-2008 | Associated Press

[MNJohnnie]

Iraq's parliament adopted legislation Saturday on the reinstatement of thousands of former Baath party supporters to government jobs, a key benchmark sought by the United States as a step toward national reconciliation.

The bill was approved by a unanimous show of hands on each of the law's 30 clauses. Titled the Accountability and Justice law, it seeks to relax restrictions on the rights of members of Saddam Hussein's now-dissolved Baath party to fill government posts.

It is also designed to reinstate thousands of Baathists in government jobs from which they had been dismissed because of their ties to the party.

The dismissal of thousands of Baath Party supporters from these jobs after Saddam was toppled in 2003 deepened sectarian tensions between Iraq's majority Shiites and the once-dominant Sunni Arabs, who saw the de-Baathification process as targeting their community.

[crazydad]

He said “Hershey Highway, huh,huh,huh!”

[tobyhill]

Nancy needs another enema.

[milwguy]

Love the way the AP reports the success...........Iraq to reinstate ex-Saddam supporters .....Perfect lesson in how to turn good news into a bad headline.

[tobyhill]

MSNBC is reporting that Iraq will “ease” the restrictions as if the Iraqi government is going to let them out of their homes for the first time in 5 years.

[jazusamo]

The RATS are dying a slow death on this and GW played them like a piper.

[tobyhill]

When Iraq finally passes a national oil law the Rats will have lost the whole Iraq political talking points and will probably try to return to what they claim is a lack of military success.

[glaseatr]

Why the Iraqis are so so slow to just adopt this current system nationally I do not understand.

Maybe they are working on getting it right the first time, unlike our congress critters who would pass some piece of crap law just to look good in the next news cycle???

[wayoverontheright]

Love the way the AP reports the success...........Iraq to reinstate ex-Saddam supporters .....Perfect lesson in how to turn good news into a bad headline.

Exactly. If they were truly Saddam supporters, then they wouldn't want back into the government that just finished LYNCHING him, now would they?

[jazusamo]

I believe the only RATS that will continue any discussion on Iraq will be the moonbats from the most liberal districts, the rest will try to distance themselves from it because they know it will only hurt them.

[tobyhill]

CNN isn’t even reporting this news but this instead,”U.S.: Iran-linked bombings in Iraq up sharply”.

[Allegra]

Perfect lesson in how to turn good news into a bad headline.

They excel at that, don't they?

Too bad they excel at little else.

Iraq is working and they can't extract themselves from all of their earlier negative spin.

[ichabod1]

Quick, move the goalposts!

[Kaslin]

Same article just different title in

Yahoo!News

[elfman2]

But, but 20 minutes ago I just heard some loudmouth on FOX News cheering about no Iraqi political reconciliation in sight...

[elfman2]

“Just imagine if this were done from the very beginning....”

Then the new Iraqi government might have been too fundamentally and thoroughly infiltrated with their enemies for hope. Our opposition would just have something more profound to crow about.

[elfman2]

"Same article just different title in "

LOL! You just can't win with some a~sholes... "Iraq to reinstate Saddam party followers"

[CDB]

Love the way the AP reports the success...........Iraq to reinstate ex-Saddam supporters .....Perfect lesson in how to turn good news into a bad headline.

You can just see the AP's "journalists" gritting their teeth as they "reported" the article.

[kipita]

Then the new Iraqi government might have been too fundamentally and thoroughly infiltrated with their enemies for hope. Our opposition would just have something more profound to crow about.

Besides Rwanda (comment #14), I’m also basing my statement on the coalition death rate. The average was less than 1.4 per day for 5 months after the initial war was over. Then the insurgency started and the death rate soared. But what would one expect 100,000s of low level military and government Sunnis to do?

There is no doubt that the US has an exceptional military and I’d give it a 10. But I think government support and political support based on achieving pre-war objectives was average at best.

[Liberty Valance]

I love it when you post that phrase and those pics! I know it’s gonna be a good day whenever I see them ;o)

[Fox_Mulder77]

now the Dims are going to claim victory on this saying it is their threats of pulling out that are causing reconciliation in iraq.