They are eligible for rehire. But they had to be purged. I'm unwavering in the belief that you had to start from scratch. Like I said, no way the Kurds or the Shia would have had it any other way
I don't believe that at all. The US when it came it could have done whatever it wanted. Kept the Iraqi Army and police in place and given over the country to a secular Shia Army officer or a secular Shia strongman in exile like Allawi and the average Kurd or Shia would have been happy.
The religious leadership in Najaf can go sit on a nail.
That said it is water under the bridge at this point.