Well, the Iraqi's sure are good at abusing power. We were driving down the street in the GZ the other day and there were armed Iraqi soldiers in the streets, handing something out. Is it some kind of security alert I wonder? I stop, put down the window, and take a poster. A campaign poster.
You will note that in the US armed soldiers don't walk around in uniform, driving military vehicles, handing out literature for President. In fact, I'm no political scientist, but I'm pretty sure that's on a list of things that you can't do somewhere. Looking at the poster, the guy on the left is the current Minister of Defense.
So, this is kind of like Rumsfeld running for president and having the military stand in the streets handing out campaign literature.
These guys don't really get it yet. It seems that, more often than not, once they are in power they treat State assets like their own, simply as a matter of course.
