Iraq has adapted to the problem of corruption in Iraq's prison system. Unable to be sure that inmates can't bribe their way out of a life sentence, as Strategypage has noted, Iraq has erased that problem:
Iraq has executed 21 prisoners convicted on terrorism charges and links to al-Qaida, the Justice Ministry said Wednesday, setting off fresh criticism from a human rights expert over Baghdad's insistence on enforcing capital punishment.
The prisoners were executed by hanging in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, according to a statement posted on the ministry's website. All the convicts were Iraqi al-Qaida operatives who were involved in bombings, car bomb attacks and assassinations, the statement said.
"Human rights" activists, who don't seem to work themselves up into such a frothy rage over the murders that got the jihadis their death sentences, don't like this.
But how different is it than President Obama who doesn't want to put any more prisoners into Guantanamo Bay and so just kills them from the air with drone strikes?
Well, it is different in one way. Our president made a choice to kill jihadis rather than reject the ridiculous claims of his most rabid supporters who actually read Gitmo inmate poetry like it was holy writ and who don't trust our military to hold honest tribunals to judge detainees.
Welcome to the world the left helped create.
Iraqis simply adapted to their reality of a corruption-ridden system.
Perhaps if we were still in Iraq, we could take care of high profile scum like this without going through all that trial and conviction stuff that the Iraqis have to go through:
Iraqi special forces were hunting in a western province for the most senior member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle who has been on the run since the 2003 invasion, security sources said on Thursday.
Troops were searching for Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, head of Saddam's now-outlawed Baath party, in Dour, near the former ruler's hometown of Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad.
I hope the Iraqis find him before we do. I'm compassionate that way.
