Back in November, I posted a bit of dark comedy entitled Why Dubya Wasn’t Lying, which pointed out that Bush had promised to “get the teachers back to work” in Iraq in October, but that just a few weeks later Paul Bremer had fired 28,000 teachers simply because they were registered Baathists, without investigating further whether they were in fact Saddam loyalists or had only registered as Baathists in order to get the job.
I thought this was a case of throwing out tens of thousands of babies with the bathwater, but frequent (only) commenter Danny disagreed. The ensuing dialogue can be found here. The back-and-forth ended when I wrote, “I will reserve comment, but I expect you to apologize publicly when we start hearing about how there aren’t enough teachers in Iraq, and Bremer is forced to consider re-hiring all of the “Baathists” who could have been retrained already.”
Well, in light of this story in today’s LA Times ("Coalition Revisits Purge of Baathists”, registration required), I’d say I’m due an apology.
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Where's My Apology, Danny?
