Oregon National Guard Story Continued

After some brief press activity the Portland Oregonian Story of how Oregon National Guard members were told to walk away from an Iraqi prisoner abuse incident is being ignored once again. The Oregonian is trying to keep it alive. In an excellent editorial today,Iraq incident requires answers they ask some good questions. I'm not going to duplicate it all here but the last to paragraphs say it all:

As the justifications for going to war in Iraq have been crumbling under scrutiny in recent months, the one that has held up the best was that the Iraqi people would be freed from Saddam Hussein's oppression.

It's not at all clear that Americans would have supported the war if they knew in 2003 what they know now. But it's absolutely clear that the Americans who have died in Iraq so far did not die because they wanted a new regime of oppressors to take up where the old one left off.