Debaathification event
also: debathification of Iraqi society order, Order No. 1
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Disbanding of Iraqi Security Forcesevent · 3Irancountry · 3Paul Bremerperson · 2Saddam Husseinperson · 2Paul Wolfowitzperson · 1Douglas Feithperson · 1Contractor Immunity Orderevent · 1Department of Defenseintelligence service · 1U.S. State Departmentorganization · 1U.S. Air Forceorganization · 1Donald Rumsfeldperson · 1
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Paul Bremer issued
Debaathification documented
“They also got rid of 40,000 school teachers that had been part of the party only because they had to be. In order to get a job, you had to join the bath party. They fired all of them. Brimmer signed this order on May 16th. Then one week lat…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 18:04
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▶ 17:05
They know, because of this meeting at Army War College, what they need to succeed. They're going to purposely fail. Why? Because it's going to grow this private military industrial complex that they're all going to get rich off of. The firs…
▶ 17:35
meaning that the top levels of Saddam Hussein's bad party would be banned in all of the new government. This was a move that affected at least 85,000 Iraqis. They were immediately out of a job. And they were the people who knew everything t…
▶ 21:32
Quote, the coalition will actively oppose Saddam Hussein's old enforcers. We will make clear that the coalition will eliminate the remnants of the Saddam's regime. Unquote. That same morning, according to Bremer, the undersecretary of defen…
▶ 22:01
though from Brimmer's account, the demobilization decision appeared to have come from Wolfowitz as well. So you have Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz is basically his number two guy at the Pentagon. All civilians, all done against military advice. T…
▶ 23:36
And before the coalition headquarters was shut down, Brimmer would initiate more orders, including one at the very end of his regime, Order No. 17, which gave all foreign contractors operating in Iraq immunity from the Iraqi legal process, …