“…immediately after the fall of Baghdad the U.S. insisted on aggressive de-Baathification, in effect barring Sunnis from top jobs in the government and military. Now the [Bush] administration is insisting that [Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri] al-Maliki relax de-Baathification rules to bring Sunnis back into the government. …The New York Times on August 25, 2007, reported the conviction of the military ‘that 78 percent of attacks against the United States are now carried out by Shiites.’ ”
– Thomas Powers, The Military Error, Page 128