Sunday, December 16, 2007

the good old days!

US Shuns Iran-Style Theocracy for Iraq
By Geneive Abdo
Boston Globe
Friday 25 April 2003
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declared yesterday that the United States would not tolerate an Iranian-style theocracy in Iraq.

... and today?
UK has left behind murder and chaos, says Basra police chief
Mona Mahmoud, Maggie O'Kane and Ian Black
Monday December 17, 2007
The Guardian
... Basra has become so lawless that in the last three months 45 women have been killed for being "immoral" because they were not fully covered or because they may have given birth outside wedlock...

Yeah, this isn't an "Iranian-style theocracy"... it's worse!

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