>> that committee was behind this renewed de-baathification and attempt to disbar a whole set of people from running. >> indeed. they announced the list. they determined who was on it. they had a key role in the adjudication of it, later as appeals were issue and so forth. that did, indeed, especially coming so close to the actual elections caused quite a bit of political turmoil. they've worked through it. the fact is there are tens of thousands of candidates of which several hundred now in the end will have been disqualified. as with everything in iraq, there's again -- with iraqracy as we've termed it, there's a considerable degree of emotion, there is again drama. but at the end of the day or perhaps sometimes after the end of the day they manage to work