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To: unclewest who wrote (256336)	7/1/2008 8:46:04 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (2) of 793900

L. Paul Bremer III, ..... issued decrees to disband the Iraqi Army and ban thousands of former Baath Party members from working for the government, orders that ..... “created a pool of disaffected and unemployed Sunni Arabs” that the insurgency could draw on. That, in my view, was the gravest mistake. I was shocked by its stupidity when it happened. Bureaucrats like Bremer do not understand that in totalitarian countries many capable and ambitious individuals - many of them natural leaders - will join the ruling (and only) party because there is no other way to advance. How many among them were torturers with blood on their hands? Probably a relatively small fraction. The majority should have been "turned" and made work for us, instead of waging war against us.

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