As Iraq goes through the process of getting close to totally shut down so that elections can happen there this week, it's worth remembering what the parties who are likely to win are up to. As Riverbend writes from Iraq:
blockquote>Who needs Al-Qaeda to recruit 'terrorists' when you have Da’awa, SCIRI and an American occupation?Is it really that bad? She makes a moving case case against our "allies" - be in terms of the assasinations the carry out or the torture prisons they run, one more of which was exposed today - with the eyes of someone who's on the ground in the area, and having to live with this every day of her life.
Why are we training and supporting these monsters, spending incomprehensible sums of money and losing American lives? A pragmatic case can be made for it. But it's an ugly case - not one to be proud of, and one that has little to do with what most Americans think of when they hear the word "freedom".
Posted by armand at December 12, 2005 01:23 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Iraq