Understatement Department

If only the Iraqis would follow the shining example we set at Abu Ghraib.

Violence Said to Slow Rights Effort in Iraq

The State Department yesterday depicted efforts to guard human rights in Iraq as badly hampered by a climate of "extreme violence" and by sectarian militias that often act "independently of governmental authority."

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