Neoconservative legal system in Iraq

Torture.  No habeas corpus.  Lack of managerial oversight.  We have yetto build the legal system in Iraq that we promised -- and this is allby our example:

 

The president of the Iraqi bar association hand-delivered a letterto House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Senate Judiciary Committeeranking Republican Arlen Specter (Pa.) Wednesday calling for bettertreatment of detainees in Iraq and criticizing the U.S. government fornot doing enough to build Iraq’s legal system.

Aswadal-Minshidi and a group of prominent Iraqi lawyers have sent the sameletter to President Bush. On Tuesday, they shared their concerns in aprivate meeting with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Theyalso met with Emmet Flood, special counsel to the president.

In case you thought I was exaggerating about habeas corpus -- there is literally no habeas corpus!

The lawyers are primarily concerned about the length of time — rangingfrom three months to two years — Iraqis rounded up in broad securitysweeps must wait behind bars before seeing authorities with power toadjudicate their cases, said a State Department source familiar withtheir views. Most of the suspects rounded up on suspicion of havingties to insurgents are let go, but they often have to wait months totrickle through the legal process. In many cases, their families havelittle idea of what happened to them.

This isn't a democracy.  It's a police state that is now part of the US proxy war with Iran.  Democracy?  No, that was just the excuse.  Oil?  Yes, but we failed on that.  Military bases next to our number one foe, Iran?  Now you're talking.