Why did I have to go to the
Canadian media to see this?
Caption: Iraqi demonstrators stage a mock reenactment of Abu Ghraib Prison abuses during a rally in Baghdad, Saturday.
And how about this for a tragic indictment of our US image abroad:
Waving Iraqi flags and chanting slogans against the occupation, they placed three effigies representing Saddam, U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on a pedestal, then knocked them down.
Headline: Huge crowds rally in Iraq against occupation.
The more I read, and the more I see crude prices skyrocket, the more I'm a fan of Occam's razor: we quite simply did it for the oil.
(If you want to read more about oil, read Jerome a Paris' outstanding diaries.)