Meanwhile, in Iraq...

You remember Iraq, don't you? Liberated Iraq, where the only problems are from those resistance fighters insurgents terrorists? Where there were some slight abberations, but the Bad Apples responsible for that have been punished, and the flunkies bootlickers Vichy régime elected government have been full of nothing but praise for their invaders occupying power liberators. Actually, that's not quite true, but the principle remains, or something.

Well, anyway, even if you discount the torture vigorous interrogation of innocent people suspected insurgents, and their secret executions and disappearances prompt and just treatment, it seems those dang Iraqis still aren't happy.

Why, you'd think what with all the night-time raids, jackboots at the door at OMFG-o'clock, and summary arrests where men are taken away without explanation and never seen again, that they'd be grateful for the rigorous protections they are receiving against those horrible, horrible insurgents. What ingratitude!

Oh, did you think I was joking, or even exaggerating?

( I wish I was. I really really wish I was exaggerating )

Imagine, if you will, your suburb locked down with no warning, your door kicked in at Fuck-me-dead in the morning, your neighbors taken away and never seen again.

Ave Bossa nova, similis Bossa seneca... There are, it seems, two differences between Saddam's régime and the New Iraqi Order:

1. Saddam never said he was doing it for his victim's own good, and
2. Saddam was never as wholesale as this.

Ooh, ooh, Catsidhe's saying that Saddam was good! Catsidhe's saying that Saddam was wonderful! No. Wrong. Go back to reading LittleGreenFootballs.
Catsidhe is saying that Saddam was evil, but that his replacements have combined comparable evil with hypocracy.

I am so sick of this.