Hmmm. Maybe firing all of them might have been a mistake.

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It all depends on how you define 'mistake'. Look:

Bremer Says 'Baathist' Policy Poorly Applied
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By Alistair Lyon

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq 's U.S. administrator Paul Bremer said Friday a policy to root out members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party had been unjustly applied.

He announced changes to its implementation that he said would allow thousands of teachers sacked for holding party cards to return to work and thousands more to receive pensions.

"The de-Baathification policy was and is sound," he said in a speech on U.S.-funded Iraqiya television. "It does not need to be changed ... but it has been poorly implemented."

"There is no room in the new Iraq for Baathist ideology, for Baathist criminals," Bremer stressed.

He said Iraqi complaints that the de-Baathification policy had been applied unevenly and unjustly were "legitimate." An appeals process for those sacked would be speeded up.


See, now, the 'Policy' which was Bremers, was not a mistake. It was the 'application' of the 'policy'.