WASHINGTON (CNN) -- "The remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime know they have no future in a free Iraq," U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday, restating the U.S. stance even as coalition officials in Baghdad confirmed that some of Saddam's former Baath Party loyalists may be allowed to take back their old jobs.
It's seen as a potentially significant change in postwar strategy.
Civilian administrator Paul Bremer now wants to allow former Baath Party members to serve in the Iraqi military and government establishment.
"I think Ambassador Bremer has probably heard from thousands of Iraqis since he has been here on the issue of 'de-Baathification'," coalition spokesman Dan Senor said Thursday.
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