“The same as Saddam’s time and worse”

We were warned repeatedly of this very thing long before the U.S. invaded Iraq. Now the U.S. is blaming everyone but the real cause. They broke it, and they can fix it. And there is only one way to do that, and the neocons have no plans for that. As long as Iraq remains in an uproar, they have the opportunity to suck Iraq's assetts dry as well as pocket the money meant >nudge, nudge, wink, wink< for Iraq. If a stable government representing the people came into power, this would not be allowed. Thus, I look for more instability rather than less. Neocolonialism is nothing more than a viscioius form of outright colonialism, only by proxy.


US-backed government in Iraq: “The same as Saddam’s time and worse”

Former Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s recent declaration that the extent of human rights abuses in Iraq is the “same” as under Saddam Hussein is a devastating indictment of all those, including Allawi himself, who planned, organised and collaborated with the illegal US conquest of Iraq.

The invasion of March 2003, which the Bush administration cynically codenamed “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” is responsible for creating a nightmare of death squads, torture chambers, random bombings and fratricidal sectarian violence.

Allawi told the British-based Observer on Sunday: “People are doing the same as Saddam’s time and worse. It is an appropriate comparison. People are remembering the days of Saddam. These were the precise reasons that we fought Saddam and now we are seeing the same things. We are hearing about secret police, secret bunkers where people are being interrogated. A lot of Iraqis are being tortured or killed in the course of interrogations. We are even witnessing Sharia courts based on Islamic law that are trying people and executing them.”

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