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The Re-Baathification Law

By The Daily Dish
Jan 13 2008, 9:40 AM ET

Worth checking in with Juan Cole for the customary skepticism:

The headlines are all saying that the law permits Baathists back into public life. It seems actually to demand that they be fired or retired on a pension, and any who are employed are excluded from sensitive ministries.

My attempt to make sense of it is here.



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