de-baathification

Maliki has been in talks with the third leading Shia party to form a coalition, but with a recent de-baathification agreement and the commissions findings, his claim on power and leadership would be seen as illegitimate especially from the minority Sunnis and Kurds who helped elect Allawi and are eager to see a secular and independent government (read not influenced by Washington or Tehran) emerge.

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka: Foreign Affairs Roundup 2010

However, as other Iraq and counterinsurgency experts point out, the surge's security gains can be reversed if important political issues such as oil wealth distribution and de-baathification remain unresolved.

Yvonne R. Davis: Mumbai Is Quiet, But What's Next? 2009

The accountability and justice law, de-baathification reform passed after lengthy and often contentious debate and reflects a strength and spirit of reconciliation as does a far-reaching amnesty law.

CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2008 2008

ROBERTS: In terms of these windows of missed opportunity, in your book you cite they happened in the first few months after the invasion, particularly on the issue of de-baathification.

CNN Transcript May 5, 2008 2008

Certainly, they had their de-baathification law that's right in front of them right now.

CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2008 2008

I think if we had been able to take advantage of those windows of opportunity and specifically, we had implemented de-baathification effectively as envisioned, then we would have been able to achieve greater security and we probably would have been able to reduce the number of forces that we have there.

CNN Transcript May 5, 2008 2008

The central government in Bagdhad is Shiite dominated and continues its purge of Sunnis with its new de-baathification law which isn't that at all.

The McCain response to that Obama video. Ann Althouse 2008

The so-called -- the laws that they passed when you read the fine print, most of them really are not effective, whether it's the amnesty law, the de-baathification law, or even the provincial elections.

CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2008 2008

We disbanded their police and military with de-baathification and the country is now overrun by militias.

Two Wars With No End in Sight 2007

Paul Bremmer came into Iraq in 2003 and immediately fired thousands of Iraqi bureaucrats, intelligence emloyees, teachers and government employees in a “de-baathification” project that ultimately ended up creating willing fodder for the insurgency.

After the Surge Inevitably Fails 2007