it was astounding. >> thank you for taking this honor. i'm proud of you. >> right away, within a few day s on the ground, bremer issued two o orders widely considered to be the most calamitous mistakes of the iraq war. >> they were disastrous. >> and the first was to bar all of saddam's baath party from holding the government skw jobs. >> the baathists who used their power to remove the iraqi people from office. and several hundred thousand iraqis who were the most advantaged and who had the best education, and all of these people lost their jobs. >> and then bremer fired saddam's army. a huge force of young iraqi men, mostly sunnis and turned out into the chaotic streets. of course, they still had their guns. >> this is a huge concern. >> general david petraeus was

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