And here they kept saying that the surge would be a failure – now they are complaining that it is too successful.

Hundreds of Iraqis detained in the Baghdad security crackdown have been crammed into two detention centers run by the Defense Ministry that were designed to hold only dozens of people, a government monitoring group said Tuesday.

The numbers suggested that the security planÂ’s emphasis on aggressive block-by-block sweeps of troubled neighborhoods in the capital had flooded IraqÂ’s frail detention system, and appeared to confirm the fears of some human rights advocates who have been predicting that the new plan would aggravate already poor conditions.

After all, we canÂ’t subject terrorists to less-than-optimal conditions, can we? ItÂ’s not like there are cold-blooded enemies of America and Iraq who are murdering civilians.

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