Yeah, I know...other than overthrowing the oppressive Sunni supreme leader of a majority Shi'ite nation; disbanding the entire Iraqi Army; tossing the entire nation of Iraq into chaos; and standing down from any attempt at maintaining civil order while the criminal element, extremist fanatic revanchists, and Iraqi youth (50% of the country under the age of 19, c.2002) ran wild in the streets for weeks following the fall of Baghdad- the Bush administration bears no responsbility at all for the Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence that sprung up in the wake of their war scam.

Incidentally, as of the time immediately preceding the invasion, when Saddam Hussein the nation of Iraq as a dictator with an iron fist, there were 20 million Ak-47s in private hands in the country.

That would appear to refute the often-made claim by right-wingers that unchecked private firearms ownership, in and of itself, is invariably the cornerstone of preserving freedom and liberty from the predation of domestic tyrannies. (You know how they go on about "gun control in Nazi Germany", etc.)

Saddam Hussein never felt any particular need to demand full-scale firearms confiscation. He depended on a surveillance and police state to ride herd on his population, and that policy of domestic suppression of dissent worked out well for many years for him, right up to the end.

I'm a supporter of the Second Amendment, and private possession of firearms. But I think the other amendments in the Bill Of Rights are at least as important to preserving liberty. That's a position very different from the "take my (and everybody else's) civil liberties, please- I wasn't using them anyway (except for firearms ownership)" attitude that I've so often found to typify the American Right Wing.

As I understand it, the mosques in this country are being seized in civil forfeiture proceedsings because they've been hosting Islamic clerics with clandestine ties to Iran, involved in suspicious, illegal activity as agents of a foreign power (specifically money laundering, it seems.) In other words, the clerics are basically accused of being agents of Iran, and possibly supporters of terrorism. And the mosques are part of the holdings of a foreign power engaged in forbidden activities within the U.S.A.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33894877/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

How this squares up with the American Right Wing characterization of "Obama the Muslim Traitor", I have yet to find out.

(Maybe they'll call it a clever cover operation.)