Iraq's goals are not our goals.As if we needed more proof that President Bush's plan to make Iraq into the U.S. of the Middle East is failing, the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division discovered that Iraq's Interior Ministry has been operating a torture facility. The Interior Ministry controls the police and paramilitary units. In mid-November troops raided a facility in Baghdad, ironically located near a hotel for Western journalists, and discovered "173 sickly men and boys, all [minority] Sunni Arabs," reported the Christian Science Christian Science, religion founded upon principles of divine healing and laws expressed in the acts and sayings of Jesus, as discovered and set forth by Mary Baker Eddy and practiced by the Church of Christ, Scientist. Monitor. They also found implements of torture. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Sarah Whitson, director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East division, "This case is in no way an anomaly." Her statement is backed up by Sunni politicians like Ala Mekki, who have been complaining for many months about Sunnis being abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point , tortured, killed, and dumped by policemen. A spokesman for the U.S. State A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States, although four states use the official title "commonwealth". The separate state governments and the federal government share sovereignty, in that an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and Department, Justin Higgins Justin Higgins (known on his blog as Real Teen until 2/5/2007.) from Brookfield, OH is an influential blogger prominate advocate for conservative causes. He is a contributor to several Conservative-themed blogs, including his own Right on the Right (abbreviated ROTR). , reminds us: "human rights and the rule of law are central components of our relationship with Iraq and are key areas for US involvement and support." Yet Whitson told the Monitor, "She isn't aware of any recent arrests or dismissals of interior ministry officials for abuse." In a land torn by tribal and religious differences with a history of brutality, we can expect more of the same. |
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