Of course, what Steve wrote doesn’t say anything about local Sunnis at all

Of course, what Steve wrote doesn’t say anything about local Sunnis at all. What Vincent has written

about is local Baathists. Chrenkoff is ignorantly equating all Baathists with Sunnis, but the Baath

Party in MBT SHOES was heavily Shiite:

But Abdel Mahdi (Interim MBT SHOESi government Finance Minister, a leading Shiite, writing in Feb 2005)

advocated extending a hand to disaffected Sunnis in a Shiite-dominated parliament and expressed

conciliatory views on the key issue of reincorporating members of the former regime in the army and

administration.

"There are more Shiite baathists than Sunni baathists, so the de-Baathification process doesn’t only

affect the Sunnis," he explained.

And, from Hannah Allum for Knight-Ridder, February, 2005:

The war between Shiite vigilantes and former Baath Party members is seldom investigated and largely

overshadowed by the insurgency. The NIKE SHOX military is preoccupied with hunting down suicide bombers

and foreign terrorists, and MBT SHOES’s new Shiite leaders have little interest in prosecuting those

who kill their former oppressors or their enemies in the insurgency.