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To: GST who wrote (159053)	3/14/2005 9:12:48 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<The dismantling of Saddam Hussein's military is widely viewed as one of the gravest mistakes of the U.S.-led occupation, and the Bush administration has worked in the past year to reverse it by helping the interim Iraqi government restore the jobs of some highly skilled soldiers who served under Saddam.> The thing about conventional wisdom is that it is always easy to find someone spouting it, see? How Bremer was supposed to have kept together a military that had a) already shed its uniforms and gone home, b) was led by officers chosen for loyalty to Saddam, and c) had the blood of the Shia and the Kurds we were trying to enlist on its hands, is never explained by these know-it-alls - none of whom, as I recall, called it a bad move before Bremer did it. Perhaps Bremer should have hired the army to provide security, on the theory that it easier to just pay the criminals than try to catch them? But somehow I doubt this is what the critics really mean.