Almost all of the bureaucrats at [Saddam's] information ministry have done very nicely for themselves since the war. The government minders who spent their days reporting to the intelligence services on foreign reporters or doing their best to obstruct their work have gone on to well-paid jobs - for the same foreign news organisations they once hounded. The second-in-command at the information ministry, who spent his days reading the reports the minders wrote about visiting foreign journalists, has been employed by Fox News.
I just shake my head at this one... As Josh over at TalkingPointsMemo notes, if CNN had done this, this might raise more than a few eyebrows. The rest of the article is an interesting read, too.
Another thing about the article: back in the day, I didn’t buy the humanitarian argument for invading Iraq because I didn’t see how order could be maintained without co-opting the Ba’ath. The article says that the CPA is only now coming around to the idea that they need the old Ba’ath apparatchiks. Were they really that blind? Or did they rather think they had to wait a while and let chaos reign before they could do it without drawing criticism?
The folks in the Bush junta who engineered the invasion and occupation of Iraq are largely paleo-conservatives who see America’s role as ruling the world and killing anybody they don’t see as pro-American. This may even include killing people like the late Senator Wellstone I suspect.
They are ideologues, which is tantamount to be idiots. They reject all information that does not fit their prescriptions for how the world should be. They are not far fromthe Catholic torturers of the Inquistition or the Stalinistas who filled the Gulag with victims. The Bushistas are right and you are wrong. Now, what would you like to discuss?
Can I remind that the last time there was a seizure of power similar to the Bush “election” by the Supreme Court, was when Kennedy was shot in Texas and a Texas V.P. took over. And of course that was the last time thre U.S. got involved ina long-term land war in Asia. The Texas Ranger mentality is strictly “mental.” Ross Perot? Enron? When wil the American public realize that Texas is not a civilized state? THe concentration of oil money and military bases is a recipe for egregious use of power and environmental pillage. These [Texas] people cannot be given power without reaping the whirlwind.
The folks in the Bush junta who engineered the invasion and occupation of Iraq are largely paleo-conservatives who see America’s role as ruling the world and killing anybody they don’t see as pro-American. This may even include killing people like the late Senator Wellstone I suspect.
They are ideologues, which is tantamount to be idiots. They reject all information that does not fit their prescriptions for how the world should be. They are not far fromthe Catholic torturers of the Inquistition or the Stalinistas who filled the Gulag with victims. The Bushistas are right and you are wrong. Now, what would you like to discuss?
Can I remind that the last time there was a seizure of power similar to the Bush “election” by the Supreme Court, was when Kennedy was shot in Texas and a Texas V.P. took over. And of course that was the last time thre U.S. got involved ina long-term land war in Asia. The Texas Ranger mentality is strictly “mental.” Ross Perot? Enron? When wil the American public realize that Texas is not a civilized state? THe concentration of oil money and military bases is a recipe for egregious use of power and environmental pillage. These [Texas] people cannot be given power without reaping the whirlwind.
The folks in the Bush junta who engineered the invasion and occupation of Iraq are largely paleo-conservatives who see America’s role as ruling the world and killing anybody they don’t see as pro-American. This may even include killing people like the late Senator Wellstone I suspect.
They are ideologues, which is tantamount to be idiots. They reject all information that does not fit their prescriptions for how the world should be. They are not far fromthe Catholic torturers of the Inquistition or the Stalinistas who filled the Gulag with victims. The Bushistas are right and you are wrong. Now, what would you like to discuss?
Can I remind that the last time there was a seizure of power similar to the Bush “election” by the Supreme Court, was when Kennedy was shot in Texas and a Texas V.P. took over. And of course that was the last time thre U.S. got involved ina long-term land war in Asia. The Texas Ranger mentality is strictly “mental.” Ross Perot? Enron? When wil the American public realize that Texas is not a civilized state? THe concentration of oil money and military bases is a recipe for egregious use of power and environmental pillage. These [Texas] people cannot be given power without reaping the whirlwind.
De-nazification didn’t mean get rid of everyone at all tied to the Nazi party. Doing so would mean getting rid of virtually everyone who had any education or social position who was still alive. People were needed to run the country. I think if you look at the Soviet Union and other Eastern Countries or even the 3rd Reich it becomes clear that the ideal of finding perfectly morally pure people only and having enough people to run the country isn’t generally possible.
Still, I can see this is quite a different case.