How do you know if it's factless? Given the large # of bathists who were spared and allowed to become cops, what's so hard to believe about thousands of them not doing anything to help or even switching sides?
They should have been executed then and they should be executed now. Maliki will see them again when they think he's weak.
Read Post #13.
Given the large # of bathists who were spared and allowed to become cops, what's so hard to believe about thousands of them not doing anything to help or even switching sides?
The defectors were not Ba'athists. They were Mehdi Army. Entirely, utterly and completely a different thing.
De-Ba'athification was only passed recently and only partially. There would not have been enough time to get that many former Ba'athists recruited and trained into the Iraq Police.
Weren't the Baathists mostly Sunni? Wasn't Mookie’s cannon fodder mostly Shia? Doesn't the MSM tell us that the two sects hate each other and that this is largely a sectarian war?
Michael Frazier