Meanwhile: Ex-leader says human rights abuse worse in Iraq than under Saddam
We taught them everything we know. Thank you Lindy England and company:
Ex-leader says human rights abuse worse in Iraq than under Saddam
BY ROBERT H. REID
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's former interim prime minister complained Sunday that human rights abuses by some in the new govern-ment are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein.
Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite Muslim, told the London newspaper The Observer that fellow Shiites are responsible for death squads and secret torture centers and said brutality by elements of Iraqi security forces rivals that of Saddam's secret police.
“People are remembering the days of Saddam. These were the precise reasons that we fought Saddam and now we are seeing the same thing,†the newspaper quoted Allawi as saying.
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We have become what we despise. So too has the government we installed in Iraq. 2,108 American lives have been wasted for no cause.
