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Old 05-04-2003, 08:16 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Macheath
I would not be surprised if the US interim administration uses former members of Saddam's regime to help rebuild the Iraqi Government, especially if they act in opposition to a fundamentalist theocracy. They will not, of course, be in the limelight; but the former Ba'ath party members will be reintegrated into Iraqi society in some capacity.

Whoever controls the war crimes investigations controls this reintegration process. I hope that it will be something like South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. I fear that it will be something like Pinochet's general amnesty.
I noticed this morning that we are already using some Ba'ath party officials - I believe it was to head their medical/health department. Not all democrats are bad so I would have no objection to the Presidnet using a democrat occassionally in some position - the same is probably true of the Ba'ath party. If they were there in a professional capacity and were not part of the unacceptable portions of the former government I see nothing wrong with it. They are probably the professionals that were best suited to do the job in the first place.
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