Roads to Iraq

- The law drafted and signed by the American civil administrator Paul Bremer as resolution No. (1), inspired by American ideas used in Germany and Italy Japan, taking advantage of the Iraqi ideas presented by Ahmad Al Chalabi, who is one of the contributors.

- Reading the introduction of the Accountability and Justice law, you can conclude that it was build with the same spirit that made the De-Baathification law or an extend to the old law.

…….[the law] do not forget the great sacrifices of our people and their suffering during that era, ….to build a free and democratic Iraq, far from sectarianism, racism, tyranny, discrimination, exclusion and marginalization, submitting those who committed crimes against the Iraqi people to justice…

- Arabic word for the organization was (Ijtithath) which is the (De) part from (De-Bathification) but (Ijtithath) is more associated with physical punishment [to cut, uproot] and some hidden violence with using such word, Arabic word for [dead body] (Jutha) is derivation from (Ijtithath).

This word gave the green light and put in practice literally by the militias and death squads to legitimize the assassinate of the Baathists.

- In the Arabic draft resolution, that came from the American embassy there was a line saying the following :

The Baath members who committed adultery crimes.

The interesting thing is the use of [adultery] word in Arabic was (Fusuk) which is [adultery] limited with the religious point of view but not a social crime.

- Something about the names of the leaders of organization’s supreme body, shows lack of political neutrality and non-specialization in the legal process.

Ahmad Al Chalabi [chairman], Nuri al-Maliki, Sami Al Askri, Jallal Al Sageir and Hadi Amri [Al Dawa Party]

The aim was to polish the images of persons who were known with criminal backgrounds before and recently protected by their by their political parties and armed groups.

- The most interesting part is the budget of this organization, $7 billion, which exceeded the budget of the Ministry of Women, and the Ministry of Higher Education, you can easily say it became a mini-political state.

For the history I say that Salih Al Mutlaq was the only politician who called for the cancellation of the law from the beginning and kept saying it until today, in his interview with Radio Sawa he said:

You can not put the law in practice against one-party or one slice of the society leaving the others.