Of course Bremer firing them from their jobs by the tens of thousands and then telling them they wouldn’t be allowed back because in Bremer wrongly considered everyone in the old army to be Saddam loyalists.
The Fedayeen Saddam were Saddam loyalists that faught for him during the war. The Army by contrast refused to fight for Saddam during the war.
I meant to add “was idiotic” to the end of my first sentance.