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Like many Iraqi army officers, Abu Laith (the alias of a Baath Party member from Fallujah and former captain in Saddam's 6th Armored Division) found himself out of a job when the U.S. dissolved both the Baath Party and the Iraqi military in 2003. His army commission and party membership, formerly twin keys to success in the old Iraq, were now liabilities. For months, he stayed in his house, depressed. "Iraqis thought it was a great honor to be an officer in the army," he said. "I'd lost my honor...
...Iraqi government as a major step toward bringing stability to the country. But behind the scenes, some U.S. officials are fretting about Iraqi plans to remove as many as 9,000 members of the country's security, intelligence and police services who have been identified as former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath regime. Such a move could wreck the Iraqi forces that the U.S. has spent two years and $5 billion trying to train, according to U.S. officials in Baghdad and Washington. They are also worried that a sweeping de-Baathification order could toss out thousands of former...
...build Japan's political, diplomatic and military influence to a level that would match its economic might. In the first Gulf War, Japan sent only money to protect its oil interests. In 2003, however, Koizumi became one of the U.S.'s few staunch supporters in the campaign to oust Saddam Hussein, and put (admittedly noncombatant) boots on the ground in 2004 to support the Iraq reconstruction effort. More recently, Japan has (to the consternation of the U.S.) reached out to Iran to secure oil supplies and is seeking to expand its influence in Africa by doubling the amount...
...right at the beginning, rather than treating it as an afterthought. David Grayson London Mistakes Were Made The headline on your brief summary of the presidential commission's intelligence report, "No Holds Barred," was absurd [April 11]. The commission came nowhere near "assigning blame for the flawed conclusion that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction." Where are the names of operatives and senior intelligence analysts who either covered up faulty conclusions or deliberately lied to conform to President Bush's plan to invade Iraq ? More than 1,500 American soldiers have died in Iraq because someone blundered, yet no heads...
...headline on your brief summary of the presidential commission's intelligence report, "No Holds Barred," was absurd [April 11]. The commission came nowhere near "assigning blame for the flawed conclusion that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction." Where are the names of operatives and senior intelligence analysts who either covered up faulty conclusions or deliberately lied to conform to President Bush's plan to invade Iraq? More than 1,500 American soldiers have died in Iraq because someone blundered, yet no heads have rolled as a result of the White House's use of suspect or flawed information to instigate...