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- noun The process of removing former members of the ruling Bath party of
Iraq from the military and civil office following theousting of Saddam Hussein.
Etymologies
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Amongst some of the elements that helped was the debathification of the country that occurred, removing the dominant party under Saddam Hussein from power.
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Amongst some of the elements that helped was the debathification of the country that occurred, removing the dominant party under Saddam Hussein from power.
Counter Insurgency and the Iraq War « worlds in a grain of sand 2010
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Amongst some of the elements that helped was the debathification of the country that occurred, removing the dominant party under Saddam Hussein from power.
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We called it debathification, referring to the Bathist party.
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Although the recent surge, which McCain strongly supported, but which is also a change in tactics, not strategy, has led to a reduction in violence, we are only losing one American a day rather than two or three, it has not led to reconciliation among the parties, an oil agreement, workable debathification, or anything else that would stabilize the country.
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Long awaited the debathification law and the law regarding provincial elections.
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ALLAWI: A complex number of mistakes have been committed, starting from dismantling institutions in Iraq, security, judicial, government institutions, and so on, to debathification.
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STARR: But as the violence has shifted to being largely sectarian, many say debathification is now a tired argument.
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STARR: Allawi continues to largely blame the debathification process ordered by Ambassador Paul Bremmer in the weeks after Saddam fell, for much of Iraq's current problems.
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Those issues being federalism and debathification.
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July 3, 2015