Two days after it was installed by U.S. Proconsul Paul Bremer, Iraq's new government is talking amnesty for Iraqi rebels who fought the U.S. occupation, including pardons for those who killed Americans. According to a spokesman for Iraq's new Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, "If he was in opposition against the Americans, that will be justified because it was an occupation force. We will give them freedom." Allawi's government is understandably worried about mounting evidence that alliances are forming among the secular fighters, mostly Iraqi nationalists including members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, and the radical Islamists.
But let's just say this amnesty program works. Wouldn't the result be the very same people in power, sans Saddam, as before the U.S. invaded Iraq? And would that fit our definition of a Free Iraq?
London Free Press: Iraqi PM considering amnesty for rebels
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