Footnote to the preceding, Meet the New Boss Div.

Same as the old boss. From the Christian Science Monitor for May 4:

[W]ith Iraqis taking a greater role in battling the insurgency and patrolling their own streets as the new government begins work, accusations of human rights abuses are shifting away from the Americans and onto Iraqi police officers and soldiers.

The accusations of abuse range from reports of prisoner torture and death of detainees to the arbitrary arrest and abuse at the hands of inexperienced and untrained police officers. ...

[I]n a report issued in January, Human Rights Watch said that torture and abuse by Iraqi authorities had become "routine and commonplace."

The report detailed methods of interrogation in which prisoners were beaten with cables and pipes, shocked, or suspended from their wrists for prolonged periods of time - tactics that are more associated with Saddam Hussein's dictatorship than the democracy that is beginning to take root in that country. ...

"In the long run, with the assistance of the US military unfortunately ... [we are creating] a security force which is very much like the old Saddam security forces," says [Robert] Perito[, an expert on post conflict security at the US Institute of Peace]. "That's not what we set out to do."

Personally, I'd like to know, with all the evidence from Afghanistan to Abu Ghraib to Gitmo, how he can be so sure of that.