Iraq “as bad as under Saddam”
The current Iraqi government, installed as a result of the USA’s goal of introducing democracy into the Middle East, is now committing human rights attrocities as bad as those under Saddam Hussein and are even in danger of eclipsing his record says Ayad Allawi (the country’s first Prime Minister since Saddam’s downfall) in today’s Observer:
‘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 chilling warning to the West over the danger of leaving behind a disintegrating Iraq, Allawi added: ‘Iraq is the centrepiece of this region. If things go wrong, neither Europe nor the US will be safe.’