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...previous de-Ba'athification law barred tens of thousands of government employees from their jobs. Most had become members in the socialist Ba'ath party not for ideological reasons but because party membership was a prerequisite to professional advancement under Saddam Hussein. Those who lost their jobs viewed the measure as collective punishment...
...known as the Justice and Accountability Law, has 30 clauses and was broadcast on televisions, radios and in newspapers across the country. It will allow all but a few thousand former Ba'ath party members to apply for government jobs and the military. Those still barred will at least receive their government pensions, which were previously revoked. The new law also allows victims of oppression under Saddam to sue Ba'ath party members for compensation...
...Institute for Peace, a body created by Congress in the 1990s, to assemble the tribes, local Iraqi Army and local political leaders into working groups to come up with a plan. A delegation even traveled to Amman, Jordan, to convince exiled former members of the ousted Ba'ath regime...
...surge was conceived of as a drive to take control of the streets, particularly Baghdad, in order to allow Iraq's elected politicians a safer environment in which to forge the vital compromises on issues ranging from reintegrating members of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party into government and security structures to the sharing of oil revenues - in short, to negotiate their way to a stable power-sharing arrangement. That, quite simply, has not happened, nor is there any sign that it's likely to. The reason the politicians have failed to agree is not the violence on the streets...
...will have the opposite effect on his fellow Shi'ites, especially for the Islamist coalition that is the largest block in the Iraqi parliament, and on Kurdish parties that comprise the second-largest block. Shi'ites and Kurds bore the brunt of Saddam's repression and regard the Ba'ath leadership as mass murderers. Many members of Allawi's own secular coalition regard the Ba'ath as anathema...