Key U.S. Benchmark For Iraqis Met Today By Iraqi Parliament

A key benchmark, (benchmarks are used... and abused by the Dems in the U.S. Congress... for measuring progress toward national reconciliation in Iraq,) has FINALLY been past by the Iraqi Parliament. This new legislation that was passed today, (Saturday, January 12, 2008) will allow former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party to be reinstated to government jobs in Iraq.

Now I just wonder how the Dems will try to downplay this good news...?
AubreyJ.........

>>> BBC News has this report on the story... U.S. President George W. Bush has praised a new law in Iraq that will allow former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to public life... Mr. Bush called it an important step towards national reconciliation...
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Bush praises Iraqi Baathist law

>>> NationalPost.com reports it this way... Iraq's parliament voted on Saturday to let thousands of members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party return to government jobs, winning praise from Washington for achieving a benchmark step toward reconciling warring sects... The law is the first of a series of measures that Washington has long been pressing the Shi'ite Islamist-led government to pass in an effort to draw the minority Sunni Arab community that held sway under Saddam closer into the political process...
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Iraq lets Baathists go back to work, U.S. pleased