Political Reconciliation: Iraqi Lawmakers Pass Pro-Baath Party Law
Iraq’s Parliament Adopts Law to Reinstate Former Baath Party Supporters to Government Jobs
Iraq’s parliament adopted legislation Saturday on the reinstatement of former Baath party supporters to government jobs, a benchmark sought by the United States as a key step toward national reconciliation.
The voting was carried out by a show of hands on each of the law’s 30 clauses. The bill, officially called the “Accountability and Justice” law, seeks to relax restrictions on the right 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 had deepened sectarian tensions between Iraq’s majority Shiites and the once-dominant Sunni Arabs.
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Its Bush’s fault
January 12th, 2008 at 8:10 amWe did the same thing in WWII. Depending on depth of involvement, some ex-nazis were allowed back into the government, some were hanged, jailed or fled the country?
Sounds rather similar to me. It worked in 1945. It took about 7 years to impliment.End result? Look at Germany today?
Sounds like a good plan to me. And I suppose any success is Bush’s fault…No more so than any successes or failures of WWII are Roosevelt’s fault or Truman’s fault.
Drive on Iraqis. You just might get there yet.
January 12th, 2008 at 8:31 amFinally!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:32 pm