Yeah, it was Kinda-Lyin's "Thousand Tactical Errors" that led to this. Big Time.

Last Nov. 13, U.S. soldiers found 173 incarcerated men, some of them emaciated and showing signs of torture, in a secret bunker in an Interior Ministry compound in central Baghdad. The soldiers immediately transferred the men to a separate detention facility to protect them from further abuse, the U.S. military reported.

Since then, there have been at least six joint U.S.-Iraqi inspections of detention centers, most of them run by Iraq's Shiite Muslim-dominated Interior Ministry. Two sources involved with the inspections, one Iraqi official and one U.S. official, said abuse of prisoners was found at all the sites visited through February. U.S. military authorities confirmed that signs of severe abuse were observed at two of the detention centers.

The tragedy of Iraq isn't that no one saw this coming, it's that the Preznit and his Neo-Con enablers and sycophants just didn't care. After all, for them brown Islamic people who kill each other are brown Islamic people who can't do them any harm over here. Fight them over there and all that bullshit...right, Sully?

I guess that the 1600 Crew is adopting that "...only good wog" aphorism coined by the countrymen of the poodle Blair a few years past, because it seems to me that right after the beginnings of the huuuge waste of everything that has been the Mess in Mess O'Potamia, the Preznit after he made light of not finding any WMD's (wasn't that just the funniest? O-My-Gawd!!) for the Washington Press Corpse he began spewing about the terrible, terrible un-freedomly mannerisms of Sadd-Am and his "rape rooms". Knowing little and understanding less, that the Shi'a majority were just itching for some payback and it was coming their way. Nothing if not patient were the Shi'a, and had a single one of the Neo-cons read about Iraq they would have seen an inkling of this.

But no. Candy and rose petals. Saddam Bad. Shi'a Good. Civil War? Not gonna happen, and if it does, well it's not our fault...we gave them their Freedom!

I think that as of today, I am officially declaring that I personally don't give a shit if Saddam was still in charge of Iraq. There would be thousands of Americans and Iraqi's alive, thousands without wounds both physical and emotional that might never heal and a bazillion dollars of our children's future inheritance not squandered by the most profligately ruinous administration in our Nation's once-proud history.

If Saddam were there, we wouldn't be, and the War on Terra™ might be going a whole different way, because there might be actual adults in charge today. Next time someone says "Well, aren't you glad we took down Saddam?" say "No. I'd rather have live Americans, Money in the Treasury and sane people in power here".

You know it's true.

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