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

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Well, one problem I see with allowing Baathists into the military is that their party could essentially become the "military wing" of the nations. I'm sure these are the kind of concerns Bremer had, you see it in Syria and Lebanon. Allowing an already established party, one that operates in various nations, seems like an unfair advantage, perhaps.

Point of order-- the military should be citizen based, it should be slighlt unprofessional at this point, and it should be diversified, religiously, ethnically, and ideologically, me thinks.