Is that a shrub in your pocket...
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Same as the old boss...
Congratulations to Geroge W. Bush and his administration. Iraq didn't have anything to do with 9/11, and it turned out not to have any of those nasty old WMD's, but at least we liberated all those lucky Iraqis from the torture and the rape rooms and all that (we killed quite a few in the process, but, hey, you gotta break a few eggs, right?).
Except, well, according to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, well, maybe things aren't exactly better. In fact, Allawi says human rights abuses in Iraq now are as bad, or worse, than they when Saddam Hussein was in power. Allawi says...
"...a lot of Iraqis" are being tortured or killed during interrogation."
"People are doing the same as (in) Saddam Hussein's time and worse," said Allawi, an prominent opponent of Saddam who steered the US-backed interim government in Baghdad until April this year.
"It is an appropriate comparison. People are remembering the days of Saddam. These were the precise reasons that we fought Saddam Hussein and now we are seeing the same things."
OK, but apart from the 100,000 or so dead Iraqis, and the no 9/11 link, and the lack of the WMD's, and the 2,000+ dead US soldiers, and the torture being as bad or worse than Saddam, and the blown up infrastructure, and the fact that Iraq is now (thanks to the US invasion and incredibly inept occupation) the principle base and training ground for terrorists, other than that, this whole Iraq thing really was a good idea.
Really.
