The international NGO Human Rights Watch has issued a scary condemnation of the goings on in Iraq. You know the place. Suffered for decades under that old dictator, Saddam Hussein. Liberated by the US. Destined to be a model democracy, the pivot point for a whole new democratic Middle East.
So how are things going in free Iraq? Free at the cost of nearly five thousand American lives and a trillion US taxpayer dollars?
According to Human Rights Watch, not that great.
The gender-equality situation is worse than it was under the old dictator. Women are more overtly second-class citizens today than they were under Saddam.
Journalists had to keep in the shadows back in Saddam's day, but they tend to die with greater frequency now that we've brought their country democracy.
Arbitrary arrest and torture of political opponents is routine.
Summary execution is routine.
Oh, and the chap we installed in the place of the evil dictator is way more chummy with Iran than Saddam ever was.
For this 5,000 Americans died and America went bankrupt?
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