----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth Ackerman" <sia at nyc.rr.com>
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> The other consequence is that if you leave the Ba'ath party structure in
> place running Iraq, you're leaving behind a deeply, deeply anti-American
> bunch of cadres. Saddam is actually a moderate within his party. The rest of
> the bureaucracy is seething with hatred for the US after a decade of
> sanctions, bombing and humiliation. So it's not even clear how pro-American
> this government will be.
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Seth, could you expound on this a little more? How, if SH is a moderate, has he managed to keep Wolfowitz-like cadres in the Ba'ath party from devouring him?
Ian