Page 2 - De Baathification News Today

No choice but to say what he said, that al maliki isnt going to be doing everything we wish he were doing on the security front. >> i mean, there are two concerns. one is hes many things. hes not a democrat. when you are in a -- >> small "d" democrat. >> hes arresting his political rivals in some cases killing them. hes arresting and -- >> you feel like hes a strong man? >> yes. >> obviously, hes not hussein but something in the area of hosni mubarak. president obama said he was inclusive. no su...

>> that committee was behind this renewed de-baathification and attempt to disbar a whole set of people from running. >> indeed. they announced the list. they determined who was on it. they had a key role in the adjudication of it, later as appeals were issue and so forth. that did, indeed, especially coming so close to the actual elections caused quite a bit of political turmoil. theyve worked through it. the fact is there are tens of thousands of candidates of which several hundred now in the ...

They did have a democratically elected -- >> 200,000 civilians were killed in the five years up to that point. >> how do you deal with the fact most of the leadership with isis are people thrown out of the iraqi military by u.s. policy? how do you accept that fact? >> i dont accept that fact. who is to blame? >> hole on guys. i think the fact is who is time to have blame for that? i think the fact that youre going to blame the people, "a," in iraqi government who allowed them to come into powe...

>> and im saying theyre terrorists that are terrorizing the -- its a fact. >> whose policy was it to throw these people out of the iraqi government? just answer one question and well move on. whose policy was to it get rid of all the sunnis in the government, throw them out and single them out to the country? >> the coalition of nearly 39 countries around the world including the united states. >> you want to rewrite your own facts. how can you -- >> de-baathification was issued -- >> multiple ch...