{"id":7408,"date":"2004-04-26T08:54:21","date_gmt":"2004-04-26T08:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/whats_the_white_house_doing.html"},"modified":"2004-04-26T08:54:21","modified_gmt":"2004-04-26T08:54:21","slug":"whats_the_white_house_doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/whats_the_white_house_doing.html","title":{"rendered":"What’s the White House Doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Rubin wants to know<\/a><\/p>\n

Career diplomats now undercut democracy in Iraq. On April 23, L. Paul Bremer delivered a speech in which he embraced former Iraqi army officers and senior Baathists. He promised to rehire teachers fired not for simple Baath-party membership, but rather for active service in the highest levels of Saddam’s party, an organization whose ideology is based on a combination of Italian Fascism and the Nazi ethnic chauvinism. Iraqis fear the Coalition will now terminate non-Baathist schoolteachers hired to replace the high-ranking Baathists. Simultaneously, senior State Department officials tell journalists that the U.S. may exclude Governing Council members who oppose re-Baathification from Iraq’s interim government. U.S. policy should support and not shun democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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