Re- Baathification?

The Iraqi Parliament shook off its stupor long enough to pass a law allowing former (?) Baathists, the Party ruled by Saddam Hussein, to join the government. This law replaces a 'de-Baathification' law in place since the US invasion. Sounds to me like re-Baathification. Since this administration is so fond of comparing Hussein to Hitler, maybe they can explain why we should have encouraged West Germany to allow former (?) Nazis to join the government in the late 1940s.