this seems more suited to tongodeon's investigative style

Iyad Allawi, ex-Prime Minister of Iraq, says, "[human rights] abuses are as bad today as they were under Saddam Hussein". Now, it's not that I'd doubt the word of a tried-and-failed politician making a pitch in the run-up to elections, but you know how these things work. If he's actually right, though, it kinda messes up the argument that right or wrong, the invasion of Iraq was ultimately good for its people.