"Iraqi state security officers are systematically arresting people on trumped-up charges, torturing them and extorting bribes from their families for their release." Guardian UK via Richard Engel.

  • http://profiles.google.com/mlashcorp José Côrte-Real

    In other news, torture common in “democratic” USA

    • EricT

      Yes, who would have thought they’d absorb our values so readily? Soon they’ll be developing their own huge trade imbalance with China. They grow up so fast… *sniff*

      • Cowicide

        And they even did it without an NDAA.

        I’m so proud.

    • benher

      Well I for one welcome our Iraqi liberators! 

  • Mujokan

    But at least the US doesn’t have to cover it up any more. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/22/wikileaks-papers-torture-killings/

  • phisrow

    We’ve brought an entrepreneurial spirit to the formerly moribund and inefficient baathist state enterprises!

    Um, mission accomplished?

  • http://twitter.com/frederikvdz Frederik

    Or the non cynical version would be that it is not so easy to heal a society that has known nothing but corruption and dictatorship over night. You can’t run a system of government like that with having only one “bad guy”. Allot of people need to be activly involved and just removing the top asshole doesn’t suddenly make who ever is left act nice.
    There is no easy fix for that.

    • Guest

      “it is not so easy to heal a society that has known nothing but corruption and dictatorship over night.”

      What about corruption and DickCheney?

      • RJ

        What about chains and corrupt dickies?

    • Mujokan

      Ten years isn’t exactly overnight. A lot of people said exactly that in 2002.

      • http://twitter.com/frederikvdz Frederik

        The war diden’t end in 2003, the ocupation started. This is the result of going in to a country, blowing the shit out of everything and then leaving after 10 years of crap.

  • http://www.jimdraws.com Thorzdad

    “Torture common again…”

    “Again”? I’m fairly certain torture never went away there.

    • travtastic

      Well, remember that there was no torture of any kind from 2003-2011.