"John Cook" wrote:
See also
http://212.2.162.45/news/story.asp?j...64&n=100247763

In a major change of strategy, the US is planning to offer government
jobs in Iraq to former senior officers of Saddam Hussein's military
and the ousted Baath Party.

In the 1920's a revolt instigated by Shia clerics against the British had a
significant and long lasting effect...