de-Baathification

British  

/ diːˌbɑːθɪfɪˈkeɪʃən /

noun

1. the process of removing the members and influence of the Ba'ath Party from public office in Iraq following the US-led invasion of 2003

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Example Sentences

“I wonder if you have thought through kind of how Republicans begin what someone on my team earlier today called de-Baathification of the Republican Party?”

From Washington Times

Other societies have gone through such processes, but those efforts — Reconstruction after the American Civil War, denazification in Germany after World War II, and de-Baathification after the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq in 2003 _ have all been flawed in various ways.

From Salon

This process, known as de-Baathification, automatically marginalized most Sunni men.

From Seattle Times

After the combat phase of the war, Chalabi quickly put himself in charge of a de-Baathification commission—which he saw as an efficient route to taking power himself.

From Slate

The push for de-Baathification of the Iraqi Army created a pool of “unemployed, frustrated Sunni men who owned weapons and had no marketable skills other than their military training” — and happened to be ripe for recruitment by the insurgency and eventually the Islamic State.

From New York Times