Mrhappy is not happy about the way the US is running Iraq:
So, the US has been running the apparatus of state terror in Iraq. The whole works: disappearances, torture, rape, murder. Add to these the mass graves at Fallujah, and there is no crime Saddam Hussein commited that the occupying forces have not. The victims are less numerous, but then Saddam had more time to build up his score.
I’d always expected that the result of overthrowing Saddam would be either an Islamic theocracy or a Saddam-like dictatorship – most likely the latter, to be succeeded by the former in a revolution. My surprise in all this is that the Americans didn’t keep the state terrorism at arm’s length, they way they’ve historically done in places like Central America. I’d expected a quick installation of someone like Chalabi, with plenty of US advisors and military instructors to facilitate the dirty work. Maybe if they’d managed the immediate post-Saddam period with a bit more competence, they might have been better placed to make such a move.