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With the de-Baathification process a lot of people got spun up here.
U.S. official: Election of 'enormous' importance to Iraq 2010
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Ben Ali and Mubara k, nor will they vanish if they are purged in an indiscriminate de-Baathification-style process.
Dismantling the Machinery of Oppression Eric Goldstein 2011
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How it was administered I think was the problem, not the decision to have a de- Baathification process.
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Chief among those blunders is the disbanding of the Iraqi Army and the de-Baathification laws enacted by Paul Bremer - at the behest of a number of former Iraqi exiles who it turned out later were connected to foreign governments.
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Obama's "No, We Won't" Moment in Iraq 2010
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Starting with a pair of initial catastrophic decisions — first ordering a blanket de-Baathification of the country, then disbanding the Sunni-led Iraqi Army — Bremer fomented the Sunni uprising and never understood the country he was supposed to be running, the critics said.
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First, as laid out by GRITtv correspondent Mike Papantonio, as in Iraq where there was de-Baathification in the government, there needs to be de-Bushificiation of federal agencies.
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Incumbent PM Nuri al-Maliki seems determined to hold onto power as he tries to forge an alliance with the sectarian Shia Iraqi National Alliance (INA), whereas winner of last months elections Iyad Allawi battled Iraqi courts to keep his candidate list valid (and reaching a deal to end de-Baathification) and maintain his very narrow two seat majority.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka: Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup 2010
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Chief among those blunders is the disbanding of the Iraqi Army and the de-Baathification laws enacted by Paul Bremer - at the behest of a number of former Iraqi exiles who it turned out later were connected to foreign governments.
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Obama's "No, We Won't" Moment in Iraq 2010
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In abiding by the de-Baathification process, at the urging of Chalabi and other once-stalwart anti-Saddam allies, Paul Bremer, the Coalition Provisional Authority head in 2003, may have committed a grave blunder which is only now beginning to unfold.
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Iraq's Political Turmoil Could Lead to Civil War 2010
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He returned to Iraq with his two grown sons following the U.S. invasion and took a position as culture director of the de-Baathification commission in the Iraqi interim government.
Heather Robinson: Iraqi Liberal Calls on President Obama to Oversee Baghdad Recount 2010
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