They are all Saddam now

Two days ago, I was bewildered at Hazim Shaalan (former defence minister) who lambasted the Iranian government of Iraq for everything imaginable.

He also alluded to Iran's growing run of the affairs in Iraq.

Today, Iyad Allawi (who headed the cabinet Shaalan was a member of), came out and said human rights abuses in Iraq were as rampant, as violent, as vicious and as inhuman as during Saddam Hussein's rule of the country.

Nah, really?

"People are doing the same as (in) Saddam's time and worse," Allawi said in an interview published in Britain on Sunday.

"It is an appropriate comparison," Allawi told The Observer newspaper. "People are remembering the days of Saddam. These were the precise reasons that we fought Saddam and now we are seeing the same things."

You can read more of this remarkable turn of events (huh?) at CNN.

But wait just a fucking minute. While we can easily blame the Badr filth and their Iranian backers (don't forget the murderous Daawa), let's not forget the role of the cavalier Westerner.

Whether it be the valiant US soldier cutting down women and children, or the private military contractors who cut down everyone, Iraqi civilians are being massacred almost en masse by the same capricious outfits who claim to be protecting them.

In a report published in The Telegraph, there is "sparked concern that private security companies, which are not subject to any form of regulation either in Britain or in Iraq, could be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent Iraqis."

Apparently, these hired mercenaries shoot at Iraqi cars at a maddening pace and regularity.

Could the western armies and their mercenary cohorts be so devoid of care for the people they were meant to liberate?

Oh, that's right, blame Zarqawi for this one. And the next one, and the next one.

After Allawi's outburst, anything is possible. I wonder if the Iraqis who opposed Saddam will one day mourn his ouster.

Foreseeable, yes. We already hear murmurs in Iraq how things were better under Saddam.

By the way, Allawi has flooded Iraq with hundreds of thousands of political posters advertising his coalition (the 187-year old Adnan Pachachi is a member) and calling on Iraqis to vote for him.

A former Baathist hitman who received orders from Saddam and wanted the Baathists back in government against the diaperheads in Qum and the embezzler Chalabi.

Hmm...we are becoming a democracy! It's just like America! Different parties, same manipulative shit.