From: "Phil Payne" 

> > "WASHINGTON, March 8 — Iraqi police units, often infiltrated and even
> > dominated by members of sectarian militias, continue to be linked to
> > arbitrary arrests and to the torture, rapes and sometimes deaths of
> > detainees, the State Department reported today.

> And there are individual assholes in any government who pull crap like
> that.  That's a long way from it being government policy as it was under
> Saddam.

Yeah, sure,  Rape by authority figures is a daily occurence in the USA.

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