Top brass from Iraq's Baathist regime will shortly be appointed to "key positions"

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A little snippet at the bottom of the article...
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A number of top brass from Iraq's Baathist former regime would shortly be appointed to "key positions in the ministry of defence and the Iraqi joint staff and in Iraqi field commands", the top officer announced.
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Which means that the Baathists are being reinstated, (like former Nazis were used after Mr Hitler got squished).
But in this case, they are being given key military/security positions.

This is probaly one of the most intelligent things the Coalition has done, if it wants to unass the area ASAP.
The big advantage of using Baathists is that they are secular, and established.

Let the Iraqis get the fuk on with their lives.
Let the Iraqis handle Iraq.

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Iraqi officers 'refused to fight'

Doubts hang over how Iraqis will take charge of security this year
Many newly-trained Iraqi police and army personnel refused to fight Shia and Sunni rebels in the recent unrest, the head of US Central Command says.
Gen John Abizaid said this was a "great disappointment" - and announced the coalition would draw top officers from the disbanded army of Saddam Hussein.

The creation of a new Iraqi army that can follow orders is seen as key to America's withdrawal plans from Iraq.

The US had barred officers from Saddam Hussein's era serving in the military.


Uneasy truce

The reversal of policy follows a week of violence in Iraq, in which US forces faced armed opponents in Sunni-dominated zones, as well as in some formerly friendly Shia-majority cities.

Gen Abizaid said a number of Iraqi police and civil defence corps staff "did not stand up to the intimidators" during the unrest.


The US began its offensive in Falluja last Monday

His comments follow reports that a newly-trained battalion of the Iraqi army refused to support US forces as they besieged Sunni insurgents in the flashpoint city of Falluja.

It was also reported that some members of Baghdad's new police force turned against US soldiers during last week's clashes in the Shia neighbourhood of Sadr city.

"Clearly we know that some of the police did not stay with their posts and that in some cases, because we've seen films of policemen with Sadr's militia in particular, that there were some defections," Gen Abizaid said.

He said their numbers were not large but they were "troubling" to the coalition.

But he qualified his criticism by saying the US was largely "proud" of the way many of the new recruits had fought.

The US has trained at least 200,000 Iraqis to serve as police officers, soldiers and border guards in the last year.

Gen Abizaid said some problems would remain until more Iraqis occupied command positions in the new army and police.

A number of top brass from Iraq's Baathist former regime would shortly be appointed to "key positions in the ministry of defence and the Iraqi joint staff and in Iraqi field commands", the top officer announced.

"It's also very clear we've got to get more senior Iraqis involved - former military types involved in the security forces."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3621369.stm
 

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The same thing occured after the fall of the Soviet Union. Afterwards you would see members from the Soviet government having positions in the new Russian government.
 

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Same thing happened in Hungary as well. Same faces, same shlt, different names given to the positions. It's officially called "democracy" now but it's only a puppet democracy at best.

The anti-communists of the past are becoming anti-American now (they needed this much time to speak their minds after so much repression and to figure out that America was not in it for the principle, it was in it for the money and power). There were large numbers of anti-communists back then. For America this is not good IMO.
 

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I should clarify that the internal matters are the same shlt as before but with the huge difference that the USSR stopped siphoning off the wealth. That was a major change for the better.
 

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