Improving Iraq, Dungeon by Dungeon

A detention center in Baghdad operated by Interior Ministry special commandos [contained] 13 prisoners who had suffered abuse serious enough to require medical treatment, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Sunday night. An Iraqi official with firsthand knowledge of the search said that at least 12 of the 13 prisoners had been subjected to “severe torture,” including sessions of electric shock and episodes that left them with broken bones. “Two of them showed me their nails, and they were gone”.

The detention center raided Thursday, situated to the east of the Tigris River, is run by a commando unit from the Interior Ministry, which oversees the country’s police forces … The Interior Ministry is run by Bayan Jabr, a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a leading religious Shiite party that has an Iranian-trained armed wing called the Badr Organization. Many Iraqi officials have said the ministry has recruited heavily from Badr and other Shiite militias, and there is growing evidence that such forces are abducting, torturing and killing Sunni Arabs.

So if I understand things correctly, the primary purpose of invading Iraq was to eliminate non-existant WMDs. The next “purpose” for the invasion was to apparently to eliminate a despotic regime that was torturing and killing specific segments of Iraqi society in a sectarian manner. This minority regime was removed, and has been replaced with a majority regime that seems to be torturing and killing specific segments of Iraqi society in a sectarian manner. And it’s allied with Iran. This must be what the necons meant when they said they were going to redraw the map in the Middle East. It seems as if Iran’s borders have been extended west into Iraq and east into Afghanistan. Well done lads.