The implications are staggering in any event but the Chaldean angle is interesting and sad for me personally. I know that Ba'ath served as a useful (maybe even crucial) pluralist umbrella for non-Muslim non-Arab ethnicities like the Assyrians and of course Tariq Aziz and his people. Nowadays they're drowning, having been artfully snipped out of any triplicate vision of shia/sunni/kurdish Iraq.