de-Ba'athification

At least six candidates from Allawi's winning Iraqiya list have been targeted by an anti de-Ba'athification body that evolved from the US-led coalition provisional authority's days in 2003.

Iraq risks sectarian war, warns election winner Iyad Allawi Martin Chulov in Baghdad 2010

Rove makes no reference at all to the detrimental consequences of Bremer's "de-Ba'athification" of the Iraqi civil service, nor to Bremer's decision to disband 400,000 Iraqi troops, handing terrorist forces a recruitment pool of thousands of armed, out-of-work, enraged former soldiers.

Thomas B. Edsall: The Rove Legacy 2010

Rove makes no reference at all to the detrimental consequences of Bremer's "de-Ba'athification" of the Iraqi civil service, nor to Bremer's decision to disband 400,000 Iraqi troops, handing terrorist forces a recruitment pool of thousands of armed, out-of-work, enraged former soldiers.

Thomas B. Edsall: The Rove Legacy 2010

Indeed, criticisms of such decisions as going to war with a relatively small number of troops, demobilizing (or not working to remobilize) the Iraq army, and extending de-Ba'athification beyond the most senior level are frequently made and widely accepted for good reason.

Richard N. Haass: The Iraq War in Perspective 2009

The parliament recently passed both a pension law and de-Ba'athification reform.

Bush's 2008 State of the Union Address 2008

In September 2004, while serving in Iraq's interim government as director general of the national commission on de-Ba'athification, he traveled to Israel to attend a counterterrorism conference.

Heather Robinson: Iraqi Parliamentarian Acquitted For "Crime" of Visiting Israel 2008

Amb. Crocker, whom Petraeus once referred to (somewhat condescendingly) as his "diplomatic wing man," spoke of political reconciliation at the national level, with the Iraqi Parliament passing laws on de-Ba'athification, pensions and amnesty-but also warned that it was all "reversible."

A Sense of Exhaustion 2008

He also advocates a UN-led Iraqi constitutional convention in order to forge national reconciliation and to reach compromises on federalism, oil revenue sharing, and "de-Ba'athification."

The Candidates on Iraq 2008

I went to see Condi Rice and complained that the indiscriminate nature of the de-Ba'athification order had swept away not just Saddam's thugs but also, for example, something like forty thousand schoolteachers, who had joined the Ba'ath Party simply to keep their jobs.

04/30/2007 2007

We again raised the subject of rolling back the de-Ba'athification order.

04/30/2007 2007