"---= Ö§âmâ ßíñ Këñ0ßí =---" <abuse@anarchy.gov> wrote in message
news:OBK94D4A7D349C710001138@r2-dv8.anarchy.gov...
As you can see, Bu$h's plan is an utter failure. Not only have his claims
of
improving Iraq been quashed, but so have his claims for starting the war
in
the first place. Bu$h has grown so desperate that he has turned to the
people
he once branded "terrorists" and "murderous thugs", the very people he
said
we had to fight against!
Bu$h has no credibility left whatsoever. Go ahead, someone come up with an
excuse for this one...
Former generals of Saddams regime reinstated to new US-trained army
By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
The Independent, UK
Iraqi generals who fought for Saddam Hussein are being reinstated to
strengthen the new US-trained Iraqi army half of whose soldiers mutinied
or
went home during fighting earlier this month.
More than half a dozen generals from the old Iraqi army, dissolved by the
US-
led Coalition last May, have already been given jobs say American
officials
according to the US press. Former members of the Baath party will also be
employed in the government.
The abrupt reversal of previous policy comes as a senior US general
admitted
that 10 per cent of the Iraqi security services actually changed sides
during
recent fighting and another 40 per cent went home.
It was known that one Iraqi battalion had refused to fight against fellow
Iraqis in Fallujah and police and paramilitary units walked off the job
earlier in April. But Maj Gen Mark Dempsey, the commander of the 1st
Armoured
Division based in Baghdad, said that the disintegration of the security
services went much further than previously admitted.
Gen Dempsey said: About 40 per cent walked off the job because they were
intimidated. And about 10 per cent actually worked against us. He added
that
the mutineers were infiltrators. The setback for the US is very
significant
because over the last nine months building up Iraqi security forces to
replace US troops has been a central and much-publicised plank in US
policy
in Iraq.
Gen Dempsey took comfort from the fact that about 50 per cent of the
security
services that we've built up over the last year stood tall and stood firm.
Paul Bremer, the US viceroy in Iraq, is reversing the policy under which
the
350,000-strongÊ Iraqi army was dissolved and 750,000 members of the Baath
party were either sacked from their jobs or found it difficult to gain
employment. It is widely admitted among US officials that the disbandment
of
the army and de-Baathification were disastrous decisions helping to fuel
the
insurgency among Sunni Arabs, only a fifth of all Iraqis but the
foundation
of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Among those to regain their jobs will be 11,000 teachers and hundreds of
university professors who were former Baath party members. Membership of
the
Baath was a requirement under Saddam Hussein for most government posts.
In a Sunni Arab town like Hawijah in western Kirkuk province the local
mayor
complained last year that he might have to close the local hospital
because
so many of the doctors were Baathists and, under de-Baathication, had to
be
dismissed.
The headmaster of a big local boys school was forced to resign but his
successor, a Turkoman, was too frightened to take up his job. Boys at the
school planned to burn it down and were only dissuaded by the former
Baathist
headmaster.
Members of the top four ranks of the Baath were to be dismissed under a
campaign against Baathism led by Ahmed Chalabi, the chairman of Iraqi
Governing Council's committee on de-Baathification.
The Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and Washington were clearly
alarmed at the degree of alienation of Sunni and Shia Arabs, 80 per cent
of
the population, earlier this month. Allowing the Baath party members to
get
top jobs is aimed at conciliating the Sunni Arab community.
But the central problem of the CPA remains the lack of legitimacy and
popular
support for the Iraqi Governing Council or any of the institutions of the
Iraqi state. This means that Iraqis who cooperate with them, including
generals who rejoin the army, risk being seen as collaborators. Even Iraqi
journalists who are shown on television asking questions at Coalition
press
conferences in Baghdad have received death threats.
Meanwhile a US spokesman said yesterday in Baghdad that the ceasefire in
Fallujah would last a matter of days rather than weeks unless the
insurgents
handed over their heavy weapons. The US army showed, with some disgust,
pictures of the rusting rockets and mortars and elderly machine guns that
head been handed in the US Marines surrounding the city so far.
Some 36 Iraqis were killed during fighting in Fallujah according to the
US.
The US military say they want to see a whole field full of weapons such as
heavy machine guns and rocket propelled grenade launchers. But it is not
clear how the civilian leaders of Fallujah can persuade all of the
guerrillas
to give up their weapons.
This is rather confusing. Aren't the Baathist the ones that filled the mass
graves that the Repugs are using as the excuse of the month for going to
Iraq. Pretty disturbing. Bush has realized that he has no idea how to
control the Iraqi's so he'll bring fear back by enlisting the Baathist. This
is backfiring big time.
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