Ugly

From the Oreganian (via DeLong, Kos and others):

"a team of Oregon Army National Guard soldiers swept into the yard and found dozens of Iraqi detainees who said they had been beaten, starved and deprived of water for three days.

"In a nearby building, the soldiers counted dozens more prisoners and what appeared to be torture devices -- metal rods, rubber hoses, electrical wires and bottles of chemicals. Many of the Iraqis, including one identified as a 14-year-old boy, had fresh welts and bruises across their back and legs. "

As Kos said:

"We replaced one brutal dictatorial regime with another brutal dictatorial regime. And in the process lost 1053 allied and thousands of Iraqi lives, and counting."