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But disbanding the old army meant that overnight the country filled up with disgruntled, unemployed men with military training and experience – who then found multiple new political factions (and ordinary crime gangs, I have no doubt) only too eager to give them work – vastly exacerbating, by several orders of magnitude, the insurgency/crime problem the new army has to deal with.
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No. You are confusing revamping the post-Saddam army with disbanding the Saddam, Ba’athist army.
Well, this is your debate topic. Why don’t you offer something positive that should be done instead of just criticizing what others have proposed.
[QUOTE=John Mace]
Why don’t you offer something positive that should be done instead of just criticizing what others have proposed.
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What makes you think that there is anything positive to be done ? Besides leaving, which won’t happen.
[QUOTE=John Mace]
No. You are confusing revamping the post-Saddam army with disbanding the Saddam, Ba’athist army.
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Bremer did disband the Saddam, Ba’athist army. (A move he now insists Bush approved, BTW), following which Iraq filled up with disgruntled, unemployed men, etc. And when has the post-Saddam army ever been “revamped”?
[QUOTE=John Mace]
Well, this is your debate topic. Why don’t you offer something positive that should be done instead of just criticizing what others have proposed.
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Bremer did disband the Saddam, Ba’athist army. (A move