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Watching the West Wing in Baghdad Green Zone w/ Yousef Baker

The East is a Podcast

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The Politics of Debateification

When the Americans go in they disband the Iraqi military they start the process of debathification which was to say that if you were involved with the Iraqi government somehow you no longer can be part of the new society. 14,000 people who worked in the Department of Education got fired just because ofdebathification. I think this is part of their stupidity it's part of their lack of planning It's part of the fact that they actually don't know any better and there is actual material consequences to creating a policy based on fantasy when you create a policy around a fantasy so your policy is going to go wrong they did they were stupid.

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