Worse than Saddam?

I reported on the statements by ex Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi that human rights conditions in Iraq are approaching those during Saddam's regime over at Running Scared this morning and Jazz expanded on it below. As if to prove Allawi's point:
Shiite Urges U.S. to Give Iraqis Leeway In Rebel Fight

BAGHDAD -- The leader of Iraq's most powerful political party has called on the United States to let Iraqi fighters take a more aggressive role against insurgents, saying his country will only be able to defeat the insurgency when the United States lets Iraqis get tough.

"The more freedom given to Iraqis, the more chance for further progress there would be, particularly in fighting terror," said Abdul Aziz Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the Shiite Muslim religious party that leads the transitional government and whose armed wing is the most feared of Iraq's many factional forces.

Instead, Hakim asserted in a rare interview late last week, the United States is tying Iraq's hands in the fight against insurgents. One of Iraq's "biggest problems is the mistaken or wrong policies practiced by the Americans," he said.

So this is the "freedom" 2100 Americans have died for. Of course I'm sure he would get along really well with Darth Cheney who is also demanding the same kind of "freedom".