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[–] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They didn't just ban senior members, they banned every member from all kinds of public employment. And under Saddam, you had to be a Ba'ath party member to hold public employment.

That means that if you were a teacher or a bank clerk in Saddam's Iraq, you couldn't work as a teacher under US occupation. So hundreds of thousands of working people were thrown out of the economy overnight, and a small fraction that large number went on to form Daesh.

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