BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament voted Saturday to give jobs back to thousands of former supporters of Saddam Hussein's Baath party who were fired after the U.S. invasion in 2003. The long-delayed bill is the first of several major changes in Iraqi law sought by the Bush administration with the goal of easing ethnic and religious tensions.
Belmont Club:
"This development doesn't necessarily mean the road forward is smooth, but at least the bus has been pulled back from the cliff's edge."
