They didn’t just ban senior members, they banned every member from all kinds of public employment. And under Saddam, you had to be a Ba’ath party member to hold public employment.
That means that if you were a teacher or a bank clerk in Saddam’s Iraq, you couldn’t work as a teacher under US occupation. So hundreds of thousands of working people were thrown out of the economy overnight, and a small fraction that large number went on to form Daesh.
They didn’t just ban senior members, they banned every member from all kinds of public employment. And under Saddam, you had to be a Ba’ath party member to hold public employment.
That means that if you were a teacher or a bank clerk in Saddam’s Iraq, you couldn’t work as a teacher under US occupation. So hundreds of thousands of working people were thrown out of the economy overnight, and a small fraction that large number went on to form Daesh.