Iraqi reconciliation?

As you may have seen, the Iraqi parliament passed a law supposedly allowing ex-Baathists back into government, but Juan Cole is dubious that this is a sign of reconciliation:

If the new law was good for ex-Baathists, then the ex-Baathists in parliament will have voted for it and praised it, right? And likely the Sadrists (hard line anti-Baath Shiites) and Kurds would be a little upset.

Instead, parliament's version of this law was spearheaded by Sadrists, and the ex-Baathists in parliament criticized it.

Somehow that little drawback suggests to me that the law is not actually, as written, likely to be good for sectarian reconciliation.

Cole's skepticism makes sense to me.