Disbanding of Iraqi Security Forces event
also: order number two, Order No. 2
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Irancountry · 5Debaathificationevent · 3Paul Bremerperson · 3Department of Defenseintelligence service · 2Donald Rumsfeldperson · 1Saddam Husseinperson · 1Douglas Feithperson · 1Iraqi Armyorganization · 1Contractor Immunity Orderevent · 1Paul Wolfowitzperson · 1U.S. State Departmentorganization · 1United Statescountry · 1United States Central Commandorganization · 1
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Paul Bremer issued
Disbanding of Iraqi Security Forces 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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▶ 18:04
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…
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Saddam's security and intelligence forces, including everybody in the armed forces, which was 385,000 people overnight out of a job. In their interior ministry, there was 285,000 people and 50,000 in the presidential security unit. Well ove…
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almost overnight. Although the plan was to train thousands of the demobilized soldiers into a new Iraqi army, order two would add hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens to the nations already unemployed, many of them armed, trained, and po…
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They were humiliated and angry at the U.S. The deputy chief of planning at the Pentagon Central Command would later say that on the day order number two was issued, we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and created the insurgency. And…
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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…
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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…
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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, …