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To: Keith Feral who wrote (167789)	7/30/2005 5:46:39 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

"...On May 16 Bremer banned up to 30,000 senior Baath Party officials from government jobs. A week later, he dissolved the army and the information ministry, putting more than 400,000 Iraqis out of work without pensions or re-employment programs. Of course, if Saddam Hussein's henchmen and propagandists held on to power in Iraq it would be a human rights disaster. "De-Baathification," as the purging of party officials has come to be called, may be the only way to prevent a comeback by Saddam's crew--and the only silver lining of George Bush's illegal war. But Bremer has gone far beyond purging powerful Baath loyalists and moved into a full-scale assault on the state itself. Doctors who joined the party as children and have no love for Saddam face dismissal, while low-level civil servants with no ties to the party have been fired en masse. Nuha Najeeb, who ran a Baghdad printing house, told Reuters, "I...had nothing to do with Saddam's media, so why am I sacked?" As the Bush Administration becomes increasingly open about its plans to privatize Iraq's state industries and parts of the government, Bremer's de-Baathification takes on new meaning. Is he working only to get rid of Baath Party members, or is he also working to shrink the public sector as a whole so that hospitals, schools and even the army are primed for privatization by US firms? Just as reconstruction is the guise for privatization, de-Baathification looks a lot like disguised downsizing...." thenation.com More than the Neocons protection of Israel and American hegemony in the ME, more than the religious rights' crusading baloney, more than the psychotic George's arguments with his parents, more than anything at all this administration's ME policy is dominated by BigBusiness. AmericanFascism and the worship of the almighty buck takes precedence above all else including the welfare of the majority of Americans. The welfare of Iraqis? That's not even a blip on their radar screen.