Iraqi Leader Criticizes U.S.-Led Coalition

[maddezmom]

LONDON - Iraq (news - web sites)'s interim President Ghazi al-Yawer said in an interview broadcast Monday that the U.S.-led coalition was wrong to dismantle the Iraqi security forces.


"Definitely dissolving the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior was a big mistake at that time," al-Yawer told British Broadcasting Corp. radio.


"We could have screened people out instead of screening them in and this could have saved us a lot of hassle and problems," he said. The BBC said it spoke to al-Yawer in London, where he was briefly stopping after a visit to the United States.


Critics of the U.S.-led invasion say the decision to disband the 400,000-strong Iraqi army and to purge the state of members of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s Baath party has contributed to chaos and helped fuel insurgency in post-war Iraq

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[maddezmom]

1. other comments from AFP-'Iraqi Hitler' May Emerge from Unrest-Iraq Preside

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraqi President Ghazi Yawar said in remarks published Monday that long-term instability in his country could give birth to an "Iraqi Hitler" if citizens continued to feel humiliated and despondent.



Daily bombings and kidnappings have plagued Iraq (news - web sites) since last year's U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and the relentless Sunni-led insurgency has crippled reconstruction and development projects in the country.


"This could in the long term create an environment in which an Iraqi Hitler could emerge like the one created by the defeat of Germany and the humiliation of Germans in World War I," Yawar told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.


Iraq's interim leaders have also come under fire for failing to reach out to some alienated factions and U.S.-led offensives on rebel-held cities have led to further divisions.

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[Wright Patman]

2. No, no, no

Saddam Hussein was the Iraqi Hitler. Bush 41 said so ... repeatedly.

Doesn't the U.S. gives these puppets a script to read from? Where was his?