The Role Of Baathification In Iraq

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Initiating a full implementation of de-militarizing Iraq fostered complete disorder and violence that rapidly developed into insurgency and decreased security situations. United States military generals and policy makers small decisions influenced segregation and dissatisfaction in areas of Iraqi societies. According to Franklin Miller, a former member of the Bush’s National Council, it was “dangerous to put [off almost] 300,00 men with [weapons] on the street without an [occupation]” (Zinn, Cherish M). United States policy created an influx of unemployed, armed, and mostly uneducated men and placed them in the insecure and disordered streets of Iraq. Unfortunately, these unemployed and enraged men were not loyal to either the United States …show more content…
Along with the order of disbanding the Iraqi military, Ambassador of the CPA, Paul Bremer, issued the de-Baathification order “eliminating the top four tiers” of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party from “current and future position of civil service (Zinn, Cherish M). The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) banished the Ba’ath party, removing police officers, counselors, military generals, soldiers, and public-sector employees affiliated with the Ba’ath Party resulting in chaotic scenes and mass destructions of Iraq’s infrastructures and facilities (Zinn, Cherish M). The United States policy in Iraq, under the Bush administration and the leadership of Bremer, increased sectarian violence that caused a catastrophe from 2003 until today (Zinn, Cherish …show more content…
The incomplete approach towards the defense of Iraq. Stemming from the United States Invasion in 2003, the effects of the Coalition Provision Authority’s de-militarization of the country, and De-Baathification of the Baath Party emerging Under Hussein’s regime resulted in the rise of contemporary terrorism in Iraq. War in Iraq was carried from the Bush to the Obama administration. United States actions helped the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria recruit dramatically. The Islamic State would have collapsed in certain parts of Iraq because of its own internal contradictions; however, American occupation during the Iraq War effectively incited an emerging insurgency. Subsequently, mishandling of the Iraqi military precipitated the unemployment of thousands of highly-trained military soldiers into the streets without jobs and humiliated them; hence, triggering violence between native Muslim citizens and American troops. Thus, through its lack of attention, the United States’ policies endorsed the expansion of this radical jihad organization until it became the villain it is today. This Islamic State controls Libya, Syria, Iraq, has operations in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, North Africa, and South and Southeast Asia; presumably and dangerously its next step will be the West. ISIS is titled for its properly-trained and well-funded social media publicity,

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