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Total Comments in Report: 92


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4. Police and Criminal Justice

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Considering the make-up of the Interior Ministry, this would have been rather like saying that Tammany Hall should purge itself of Democrats.

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But how, in the long-run, will subordinating the National Police to the military create the sort of civil society the Study Group claims to want in Iraq? Isn’t this just one more lurch away from the model democracy, and toward a new strongman?