Iraq War 20 Years Later: Reflections w/ Dr. Ariel Salzmann
The Majlis
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What Happened After the G. Noxification?
The debaucification meant that the entire professional class was pushed out of work, doctors, lawyers, scientists, teachers, they were all kicked out of their jobs. And then along with that was the military. Yeah, deliberate and utterly hubristic. I mean, there was also this idea that you could just dissolve the Iraqi army. You could dissolve the Iraqi state. The whole Iraqi state, but I'm saying like, even from a military perspective, to dissolve the Iraq that happened afterwards. Was I mean, they were practical, you know, they realized the country wouldn't run.
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