Baathists are the source of evil. There is a Baathist behind every bush."...

[rodeodance]

umm... Isn't integrating the Bassthists one of the goals the US set for Iraq????

...........But the government itself was responsible for some of that violence, the CIA official said. "The Ministry of Interior is uniformed death squads, overseers of jails and torture facilities," he said. "Their funds are constantly misappropriated."

In his testimony, Hayden said that the United States had fundamental disagreements with Maliki's Shiite-dominated government on some of the most basic issues facing Iraq.

"We and the Iraqi government do not agree on who the enemy is," Hayden said, according to the written record. "For all the senior leaders of the Iraqi government, Baathists are the source of evil. There is a Baathist behind every bush."............

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/11/AR2007071102451.html - Jul 14, 2007
> CIA Said Instability Seemed 'Irreversible'
>
> By Bob Woodward
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Thursday, July 12, 2007; Page A01
>
> Early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2006, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gathered around a dark wooden conference table in the windowless Roosevelt Room of the White House.
>
> For more than an hour, they listened to President Bush give what one panel member called a "Churchillian" vision of "victory" in Iraq and defend the country's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. "A constitutional order is emerging," he said.