In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Wow, things in Iraq sure are different than they used to be under that mean ol', nasty Saddam. I mean, back then, you had these Baathists, the people who ran the country and all. They were bad. Back then, you had the Iraqi Intelligence Service, the people who tortured the country and all. They were bad too. We were fighting them after the war ended and the mission had been accomplished. The ditto heads all said that the troubles we were having in completely pacifying the country were with those Baathist dead-enders, Saddam loyalists and leftover Saddam Feddayeen. So we rounded up all the generals and put them in prison to answer for their crimes. We even had this little, cute, media friendly deck of 52 that would tell us who we really needed to round up. We had rewards posted for a number of these folks. But the main point was that the mean, nasty and feared Republican Guard was broken and those generals would never be seen again. The ugly and murderous Iraqi security apparatus was in a shambles. And then we found Saddam, and world finally knew true peace.
And then this week we find that not only is the CPA inviting Baathists to join the government to lend "legitimacy" to the efforts, we find that the CPA and DoD are thinking about putting Fallujeh under the control of Iraqi security forces commanded by former Iraqi army generals. A WaPo article also details the involvement of a former colonel in the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
So, just to review, if I've got this straight: we started a war to find WMD that we were pretty certain weren't there and when they weren't there afterall, we said that we really started the war to make Iraq a better place and advance the cause of freedom in the world. So we kicked out Saddam and his cronies and ended the killing, enslaving, torturing, etc. of his people by making sure that we rounded up all the regime members and the leaders of the army and the hated and feared IIS. And now, we're putting the regime members back into the government and we're allowing former army leaders and torturers to control the Iraqi security forces. oh, and we also reopened the prison where lots of the torturing was going on.
It's as if in 1946, we said, you know, this whole Germany thing isn't going very well. Say, um, Rommel (yeah, I know he was dead by then), if you're not busy, could you help us out. Oh, and Himmler? Don't go yet. Can you get some of your SS boys back together and ride herd in Berlin for a moment, most of our boys don't speak too good German and are having a real problem with the locals. Hey, and while you're at it, if you guys could get some of your old Nazi buddies back together to join us in the new government. We need to lend some legitimacy to it. Oh, and almost forgot, if you guys could get the boilers going again at Buchenwald, we've got some people to imprison.
Wow. Good stuff. You couldn't write this stuff. You couldn't even dream of this stuff.
WTF.
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