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...reported that he compromised with members of the Iraqi Governing Council to select Iyad Allawi, a man also favored by U.S. officials, as the country's interim Prime Minister. That is absolutely incredible. Allawi, like the discredited Ahmad Chalabi, had lived outside Iraq for decades; he was a Baath Party member and a CIA employee. How likely is it that he will be viewed by the Iraqi public as having credibility? When will the Bush Administration learn from its past mistakes? Jack Kinstlinger Hunt Valley...
...reported that he compromised with members of the Iraqi Governing Council to select Iyad Allawi, a man also favored by U.S. officials, as the country's interim Prime Minister. That is absolutely incredible. Allawi, like the discredited Ahmad Chalabi, had lived outside Iraq for decades; he was a Baath Party member and a CIA employee. How likely is it that he will be viewed by the Iraqi public as having credibility? When will the Bush Administration learn from its past mistakes? JACK KINSTLINGER Hunt Valley...
...along have maintained that we have not changed two principles. Number one, that there's no place in the new Iraq for the Baath Party ideology. And number two, that there's no place in the government for Baath Party members who are criminals. We defined that as the top layers of the Party, estimated to be 25-30,000 people. Baath Party membership at liberation was 2 million. So the de-Baathification order never affected more than about 1 percent of the people in the Baath Party. Just 1 percent...
...must have spoken publicly about it every couple of weeks, beginning from May all the way through. I encouraged the Governing Council to speak to that effect; they did not do as good a job as they might have done. And in fact, of course, most of the Baath Party members were not affected. If there were 11,000 or 12,000 teachers who were affected badly because of the implementation by the Council, even that is a small percentage of the 2 million people who were members of the Party. And I must tell you one other thing...
...moment they endorsed Allawi, Governing Council members rushed to declare that he was no one's top choice. "He's a compromise candidate," says council member Mahmoud Othman. "Nobody wanted him at the start, but in the end nobody rejected him." Allawi is a former member of Saddam's Baath Party who left Iraq for London in the mid-'70s and was later attacked by an ax-wielding assassin when he refused Saddam's demands to return. Beginning in the early 1990s, Allawi's I.N.A. began working with the CIA against Saddam's regime; in 1996 the CIA tried...