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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (109744)	8/3/2003 10:17:48 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

You realize that even a kindergarten teacher needed to be a member of the Ba'athist party to get a job. I doubt they were all complicit in genocide- in fact I doubt many of them were. They are in a similar position (though not as egregious a one) as the German public after WWII. Perhaps you can keep your heart off the thread- it's icy and off topic. "However, membership or affiliation with the party was required for many government and professional jobs, and American officials have acknowledged that purging one-time Baathists from the ranks of Iraq's civil service entirely may be neither possible nor desirable." "As many as 1.5 million of Iraq's 24 million people belonged to the party. " charleston.net