Just a few days after Saddam Hussein exposed the brutality he faces in US custody comes word that the imperialist American warmongers are victimizing even more innocent Iraqis:

Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam’s former intelligence chief and one of his most feared sidekicks, also said the food was bad and he was not given blankets. He lost 18 kilos in just two months in captivity, he complained.

“We were detained by one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet it was only after four months in detention that they gave me cigarettes,” said Barzan, charged with crimes against humanity.

“And then they were of the worst quality in the world.”

We gave him cigarettes? What are we trying to do, kill him? What’s the point of even fighting the so-called “War on Terror” if we’ve become just as barbaric and inhumane as the supposed terrorists we’re trying to defeat?