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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Thursday, November 04, 2004

Priorities, people

First we forget to secure weapons sites, then we forget to secure evidence for the trials of Saddam and his friends? He's the reason we went to war (well, the sixth or seventh), he was a man that needed to be "brought to justice," to be made to pay for what he'd done, and then we just ignore all the places that could prove this and head for the oil?
Human Rights Watch alleges that the coalition's failure to prevent or minimise the looting and destruction of government buildings in April 2003 led to the widespread removal of state archives, which are now virtually impossible to trace.

The coalition subsequently failed to put in place expertise and assistance needed to ensure proper classification and exhumation procedures.

In some areas, it says, coalition soldiers watched as villagers or families of people who disappeared during Saddam Hussein's rule dug up remains at mass grave sites.

The unprofessional manner in which the graves were unearthed, says the group, made it impossible for many relatives to identify the remains, or to keep those remains intact and separate.

Crucial evidence necessary for future trials was never collected and may have been irreparably damaged.

What kind leader would allow this to happen? Do our leaders think they can just make up laws and evidence? I hope the American people do something about this sort of incompetence...