US: Saddam's Baath Party Dissolved

Newsday ^ | May 12, 2003 12:20 EDT | Ted Athony

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The United States declared Saddams Baath party dead late Sunday, with the war's commander telling Iraqis that the instrument of theior deposed dictator's power was dissolved and promising to purge its influence from the country it dominated for 35 years.

General Tommy Franks message delivered in Arabic by an announcer on the coalitions information radio, broadcast a clear message over the AM radio waves across postwar Iraq:

Any activity by Baath Party holdouts who opposed United States occupation would not be tolerated.

'The Arab Baath Socialist Party is dissolved,' Franks said, but high difficulites remain in eliminating it.

American Administrators are struggling to balance the need for a frest start with an unwelcome reality-that thousands of Iraq's civil servants had Baath affiliations.

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Now if we can 'dissolve' that 15 man convoy in Tikrit..

[GraniteStateConservative]

Unless more Iraqis have power, I hope they replay this message later.

[Scothia]

Just don't throw out the baby with the Baath water.

[LibWhacker]

I yearn for the day when Dubya announces, "The Democrat Party (of American socialists) is hereby dissolved and any further activity by its former members will not be tolerated." Shoot, if we can dismantle one enemy that posed a great risk to American freedom, why can't we another?

[Grampa Dave]

Draining the Baathists from Iraq.

[Cameron1]

Waiting for Senator "KKK" Byrd to bust a gut on the senate floor and denounce this news as nothing more that an ill timed mean soirited campaign ploy and that the president should be ashamed.....LOL!!

And Terry McAullife will ask us to make a pledge to not show this news during the campaign season......

We have these dems on the run.

[RetiredArmy]

Now if we could only do that to the democommie, socialist party of the DNC here in the U.S.A.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Just don't throw out the baby with the Baath water.

Oh great. A night of a thousand and one puns. :P

[showme_the_Glory]

Just don't throw out the baby with the Baath water.


Oh great. A night of a thousand and one puns. :P


If the Baath Party is disolved will it leave a nasty ring?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Why dissolve it? They will simply form other groups with the same philosophy and different names.

[Grampa Dave]

Your reply and comments tie in with something that I started posting about this weekend.

Byrd's, Waxman's, Water's, McAwful's and the maggot infested mediots whining about GW's flight to the Lincoln is their dream of affirmative action in the 2004 election.

It is obvious in the spirit of affirmative action, they don't us to use any of GW's accomplishments. If we show and talk about GW's accomplishments, the 9 drawf's/fairies the best that the DNC can muster will not stand a chance.

So when they whine, they are just trying impose affirmative action on the 2004 elections. Without affirmative action restricting GW, he will kick their butts!

[doug from upland]

NEXT:

US: Hillary's RAT Party Dissolved

[arielb]

the ring of terror went down the drain!

[erikm88]

IIRC, isn't there a faction of the party based in Syria???

[isom35]

headline should read "Baathists told to hit the showers"

[Captain Shady]

Back in Saddam's day ,Iraqis thought it better to have a Baath instead of smelling like a Shiite

[P.O.E.]

Ooo hoo hooo hooo!