[lentulusgracchus]

Good point. If the Al Q'aeda were still cooperating with the Ba'athist holdouts, having a government full of only partly-reconstructed former Ba'athists would be a scary proposition for security generally.

[FreedomNeocon]

Good point. If the Al Q'aeda were still cooperating with the Ba'athist holdouts, having a government full of only partly-reconstructed former Ba'athists would be a scary proposition for security generally.

Yeah, well it depends on the 'value' you place on "the Iraqi people trusting and having faith in the Iraqi army".

If that is a MAIN concern, you don't want hundreds or thousands of rogue teams, squads or commanders, wearing Iraqi army uniforms, as they carbomb a mosque.