And how the war whores were so pleased with the new de-Baathification law despite warnings that it wasn't what it seemed to be? Well, it turns out to be just another neo-con fantasy.
Iraqi VP refuses to ratify Baathist reconciliation law
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BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq's Sunni vice president refused Friday to ratify a law supposed to reintegrate former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party into public life, saying it would instead worsen their exclusion.
Last month Shiite and Sunni MPs unanimously passed a bill to partly reverse a decree issued by Iraq's former US occupation authority which sacked hundreds of thousands of Baathists from government and the armed forces.
On Friday, however, Vice President Tareq Hashemi's office confirmed that he had asked for amendments to the law prior to approving its ratification by Iraq's three-man presidential council.
"We have worked for months to fundamentally amend the de-Baathification law, in order to make it part of the national reconciliation project," Hashemi said, in a television interview reproduced on his official website.
"This bill has a feel of retaliation. How will that help to stabilise the situation?" he asked.
Friday, February 01, 2008
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a neocon "fantasy" might be understatement. when the Jehovah's Witnesses first prediction of Christ's return failed in 1925, they lost substantial members. the neocons seem to go on and on like the energizer bunny.
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