[Leaning Right]

My worry is that the lowest level of people in their army were the ones with hands-on during the persecution of the Iraqi citizens.

I totally understand that! Going back to my WW II analogy, to this day it bothers me so many German soldiers were let off so lightly. Those Germans who gave the actual commands in all those massacres, in Greece, in France, in Russia...most of them were not even charged.

Eisenhower evidently thought it served the greater good to let those men off, and focus on building a peaceful and allied Germany. Was he right? I guess so, but the survivors would probably say otherwise.

[DoughtyOne]

I suspect there was another component of the military that we didn’t think to address. It’s one of Islamic sect? Was the military predominantly one brand of Islam over another?

It could be likely that disbanding the military may have been in part due to them being exclusively from Hussein’s brand of Islam.