On the stump today, our Fearless Leader exulted that his invasion of Iraq has made Iraqis better off:
As the US military continued to reel from photographs of troops abusing Iraqi prisoners, President Bush volunteered yesterday that Iraq is better off now that Saddam Hussein is gone and his "torture cells are closed," summoning an image that has haunted troops in recent days. "Because we acted, torture rooms are closed, rape rooms no longer exist."
Yep, the dirty old Baathist torture rooms are closed -- replaced with high-efficiency, high-productivity American ones. I feel so much better.
Seymour Hersh has the frightening lowdown on just how high up the chain the Abu Ghraib abuses go. This doesn't seem to be an "isolated incident", it seems to be official intelligence community policy. This is what "spreading democracy" looks like, folks.