35 dead in Iraq and the biggest US mistake

[Almighty Colin]

35 killed at a recruiting station for the new Iraqi military.

Now this brings up something interesting. The Iraqi army was disbanded in May, 2003 and former Ba'ath party members were banned from security forces. I think these, especially the first and less certain on the second have been the biggest errors in Iraq. I know these same questions came up during World War II. Would former Nazi party members be able to contribute to government and security? The trouble then, as now, is that the only people in the German government with any experience were Nazi party members.

Now one could make an argument that disbanding the Iraqi military eliminated the greatest danger to security and we'll really never know. What it did do is unemploy hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised Iraqi men.

It will be interesting to see how well the newly forming Iraqi military will be able to maintain internal security.