What Bush Hath Wrought

Given the obsession with sexual perversion of some White House staffers as evidenced by their penchant for writing trashy novels, and the overall bloodthirstiness of the Bush Administration, one has to wonder if this is what "Mission Accomplished" meant all along:

Human rights abuses in Iraq are now as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein and are even in danger of eclipsing his record, according to the country's first Prime Minister after the fall of Saddam's regime.
'People are doing the same as [in] Saddam's time and worse,' Ayad Allawi told The Observer. '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.'

In a damning and wide-ranging indictment of Iraq's escalating human rights catastrophe, Allawi accused fellow Shias in the government of being responsible for death squads and secret torture centres. The brutality of elements in the new security forces rivals that of Saddam's secret police, he said.

Allawi, who was a strong ally of the US-led coalition forces and was prime minister until this April, made his remarks as further hints emerged yesterday that President George Bush is planning to withdraw up to 40,000 US troops from the country next year, when Iraqi forces will be capable of taking over.

Allawi's bleak assessment is likely to undermine any attempt to suggest that conditions in Iraq are markedly improving.

'We are hearing about secret police, secret bunkers where people are being interrogated,' he added. '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.'

So we ousted a secular dictator who was concerned about keeping Al Qaeda out of his country; one who gassed his own people in the early 1980's and THEN was visited by Donald Runsfeld -- and replaced him with this. And now, despite all the hue and cry about Rep. Jack Murtha's move last week for a phased withdrawal, it looks like the Bush Administration is planning to declare victory and get out before the 2006 elections anyway -- ONLY because it hurts their chances.

You'd almost think this is what they wanted in the first place.