Iraq torture 'worse after Saddam'

From the BBC:

Torture may be worse now in Iraq than under former leader Saddam Hussein, the UN's chief anti-torture expert says.

Manfred Nowak said the situation in Iraq was "out of control", with abuses being committed by security forces, militia groups and anti-US insurgents.

Bodies found in the Baghdad morgue "often bear signs of severe torture", said the human rights office of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq in a report.

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So, remember the rhetorical pasting Howard Dean endured when he said that Iraq was not safer because US forces had recently plucked Saddam Hussein from his filthy hidey-hole? Well, Dean was, indeed, mistaken, but only in the degree of his assertion. Not only is Iraq not safer because of the end of the Ba'athist regime, it is much more dangerous. The picture I'm getting is that everybody is torturing and killing everybody over there. Say what you want about Saddam; after all, he was a brutal dictator. But his iron-fisted rule provided the kind of social stability that has eluded the US occupation. It's total chaos in Iraq, and it's our fault.

Good thing I don't believe in karma, or I would be scared shitless of the inevitable punishment this country would receive for its vile, sick misdeeds.



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