DeBremerfication

Let's not bicker and argue about who lied to who...

Bremer III defends the 'process' whilst hyping the outcome.

Is he so far out of touch that he really wrote this:

Moreover, we were right to build a new Iraqi Army. Despite all the difficulties encountered, Iraq’s new professional soldiers are the country’s most effective and trusted security force. By contrast, the Baathist-era police force, which we did recall to duty, has proven unreliable and is mistrusted by the very Iraqi people it is supposed to protect.

Whilst in the same newspaper we read this.

It has been noted on numerous occassions that the Iraqi police force is but an extension of the Badr Corps and acts in concert with said militia as a kind of state sponsored death squad. Don't get me wrong but the Badr Corps are shi-ites and the Baathists secular Sunnis.

It would appear to me that the Interior Ministry, which controls the police force, underwent it's very own special kind of DeBaathification process without much help from Mr. Bremer or subsequent Viceroys and nabobs and is only mistrusted by the Baathists and Sunnis expunged from and unable to reinfiltrate it's unreliable and bloodthirsty ranks.

By the way, the Baathists and Sunnis are now our friends and allies battling with us against the 950 strong AQI. Confusing aint it.