"Bush turns to Dissenters on Iraq"

[Clarkie1]

Interesting article here about Bush doing and about face on de-Bathification and opposition to state-run industries destroyed during the intial invasion. Problem is, it's probably too little too late and it looks doubtful that the there is anyone in the Iraqi goverment who has the will and political power to really reverse de-Bathification. The sectarian strife may have reached too high a level for that now, and the administration is still refusing to talk with Iran and Syria and address the problem as a regional issue.



Bush turns to one-time dissenters on Iraq
Officials who derided early policies now asked to help save mission
Carol Guzy / The Washington Post
Updated: 54 minutes ago
First of an occasional series

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Timothy Carney arrived in Baghdad in 2003 to head Iraq's Ministry of Industry. He left two months later, disillusioned and frustrated with U.S. policy. He is now returning to Baghdad to coordinate the American reconstruction effort.

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The plan unveiled by Bush last week calls for many people who lost their jobs under Bremer's de-Baathification decree to be rehired. It calls for more Sunnis, who were marginalized under the CPA, to be brought into the government. It calls for state-owned factories to be reopened. It calls for more reconstruction personnel to be stationed outside the Green Zone. It calls for a counterinsurgency strategy that emphasizes providing security to the civilian population over transferring responsibility to local military forces.

Carney believes such measures could have been effective three years ago. Today, he worries they will be too little, too late.

much more here...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16612926/

[cyclezealot]

1. what ethics has a military viceroy the right

become so involved in a nations domestic economic/labor law. Next Bremmer might have appointed a Scalia to the Iraqi court.

[Clarkie1]

2. Even putting that issue aside, it was a stupid policy.

By failing to support the state-owned industries, legions of discontented unemployed had nowhere else to go but the streets.