Law & Disorder

Makes the NOLA police force look positively professional...

More of the old "Freedom is messy":

Brutality and corruption are rampant in Iraq's police force, with abuses including the rape of female prisoners, the release of terrorism suspects in exchange for bribes, assassinations of police officers and participation in insurgent bombings, according to confidential Iraqi government documents detailing more than 400 police corruption investigations.

A recent assessment by State Department police training contractors echoes the investigative documents, concluding that strong paramilitary and insurgent influences within the force and endemic corruption have undermined public confidence in the government.

Officers also have beaten prisoners to death, been involved in kidnapping rings, sold thousands of stolen and forged Iraqi passports and passed along vital information to insurgents, the Iraqi documents allege.

Karl Rove, by the way, considers this, quote, "...a distinct improvement on the society that existed."

Link (h/t TalkLeft).

Well, be it design or incompetence, I think it's pretty evident their idea of "success," be it in Iraq...or Afghanistan...or New Orleans--where at one point Rove himself either was or is in charge of the White House "plan"--anyway, their idea of "success" consists of things we in reality-based existence would call...well, failure.

And, like all postponed days of reckoning, the cost will continue to increase dramatically as long as we keep looking in the other direction...