"The most important Sunni cabinet post [in Iraq], minister of defense, went to a onetime officer in Mr. Hussein's feared General Security Directorate who fled Iraq under the threat of a death sentence. The man, Sadoon al-Dulaimi, left Iraq in the 1980's, became a sociologist in Britain and came back after Mr. Hussein was ousted two years ago."If only he had taken my methods course, and perhaps participating in the Concentration in Analysis and Research undergrad program at Wisconsin, he would be running the country right now. And you can bet that there would be some fine social survey data coming out of Iraq as well.
Monday, May 09, 2005
seattle: what can you do with a sociology major?
From the NYT (via a colleague):
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Yeah, like how many millions Koffi A. grafted from the oil for food scandal.
or better estimates of civilian casualties...
Or the numbers of soliders who would say they would do it all over again, the non-draftees that is. Oops, my bad, wrong war. Better yet, the number killed by Saddam Hussein compared to the accurate number of civilians killed since the invasion to finally settle it once and for all in Liberal circles if the Iraqi people would have been better off under Saddam Hussein. You can always count on the numbers to tell the truth.
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