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...Iraq would divert resources from America’s real enemies, or b) the confident pro-war argument that acting in Iraq would remove a threat and plant democracy in the world’s most dangerous neighborhood, we liberals appeared to choose c) the squeamish hope that post-Saddam Iraq would collapse, and Bush would get embarrassed...
Even today, that pro-insurgent mentality hasn’t gone away, and—among some prominent Bush-bashers—it is even accompanied by a mendacious pro-Saddam nostalgia. Michael Moore continues to defend his “Fahrenheit 9/11” portrayal of “sovereign” (though internationally sanctioned) pre-war Iraq in which children fly kites and shoppers smile in the sunshine. Popular Democratic bloggers continue posting only the negative stories out of Iraq. And just last week, a spokesperson for Moveon.org again condemned “the senseless number...
...rape prisoners’ wives and daughters to force confessions and denunciations. There are assassinations, in Iraq and abroad, and, ultimately, the gallows, the firing squads, and the pistol shots to the head.” According to the Documental Centre for Human Rights in Baghdad, “Saddam Hussein killed no fewer than 600,000 innocent civilians” over the course of his 24-year reign...
...claims that there are about 9,000 members of the military and security services who are former Baathists. With Chalabi being mentioned as the next deputy Prime Minister for Security, many current members of the Iraqi security services who were Baathists are getting nervous. "Not every officer was pro-Saddam," said Gen. Adnan Thabit, who left Saddam's army and the party in 1984, dismayed over the direction Saddam was taking. Today he commands the Ministry of Interior's Special Forces. From his office decorated with pictures of himself with Jay Garner, the first U.S. Iraq administrator, he boasted that...
...also worried that deep de-Baathification would worsen Iraq's sectarian divisions. While the current Shi'ite and Kurdish leadership spent much of the Saddam years in exile, Sunni leaders stayed and took part in the regime. Iraq's new leaders, who have long memories of the oppression of their people by an Iraqi military largely commanded by Sunni officers, view many Sunnis with suspicion and it's the Sunnis' turn to be nervous. "They do not mean 'Baathists'," said Abu Laith, the Iraqi captain. "They mean Sunnis...