遣散伊拉克军队武装、禁止萨达姆的复兴党（Ba’ath Party）的全体成员（而不仅仅是一些领导者）在新政府中担任职位的决定是巨大的错误。
The decisions to disband the Iraqi army and to bar all members of Saddam’s Ba’ath Party (rather than just a few of its leaders) from positions in the successor government were huge mistakes.