Saddam's Baath Party is back in business

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/9595474.htm

BY HANNAH ALLAM

Knight Ridder Newspapers


BAGHDAD, Iraq - (KRT) - By day, Iraqis loyal to Saddam's Hussein's much-feared Baath Party recite their oath in clandestine meetings, solicit donations from former members and talk politics over sugary tea at a Baghdad cafe known as simply "The Party."

By night, cells of these same men stage attacks on American and Iraqi forces, host soirees for Saddam's birthday and other former regime holidays, and debrief informants still dressed in suits and ties from their jobs in the new, U.S.-backed Iraqi government.

Even with Saddam under lock and key, the Baath Party is back in business.

The pan-Arab socialist movement is going strong with sophisticated computer technology, high-level infiltration of the new government and plenty of recruits in thousands of disenchanted, impoverished Sunni Muslim Iraqis, according to interviews with current and former members, Iraqi government officials and groups trying to root out former Baathists.

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[IndianaGreen]

1. Allawi is a Baathist

and he has brought back Saddam's secret police. I dare say that the Baathists are alive and well, and they are the only ones that can prevent an Islamic Republic.

Meet the new Saddam, same as the old one.

[underpants]

2. Really, where do Time and Newsweek polls have them?

11 point lead?