de-ba'athification

The political piece, it is composed of the following elements: the national oil law, which is the remarkable law in that it does not take a sectarian cast; a new de-ba'athification policy which already has allowed the -- a number of officers to return to the armed forces and pensions to be paid, and there will be further effort on that; a commitment to provincial elections, which the Sunnis feel will be important to writing the disproportionate -- disproportionately low share of their representation in provincial councils because they boycotted the elections early on.

CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2007 2007