Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam, the Ba'ath party was completely removed from all power, including public schools, and banned from participating in the government, including the police. Some say that this excluded skilled people from participating in the new government. It also removed much of the people in charge of things like the police force.
What are your thoughts on the removal of the Ba'ath Party in Iraq?
2007-03-08 07:31:13 · 2 answers · asked by Take it from Toby 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I think there should have been a more thoughtful approach to the purge, by assessing the level of threat individual members/their work groups presented, and getting rid of those who actually posed a threat, while allowing the party and those who were actually benign to stay and take part in the rebuilding.
The sad fact of the matter, is that they used a formula that was proven as early as the Reconstruction, and as recently as the Second World War: Removal of the existing power structure to create one more conducive to the victor's way of operating.
2007-03-08 08:08:50 · answer #1 · answered by sjsosullivan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a mistake, those people should have been allowed to continue to run their country, but be supervised to prevent any kind of coup. They were the best to understand how to run the country. Same thing with the Republican Guard forces, why did they disband the military, only to start a program to train a new one?!
2007-03-08 15:35:29 · answer #2 · answered by Pfo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋