Hundreds? of detention centers in Iraq where (potentially) torture

and worse has gone down. Their democracy is off to a stellar start.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=5800
With hundreds of other Iraqi-run detention centers due to be inspected, American officials here appear to be concerned that the torture of detainees that was an entrenched feature of the Hussein years has reasserted itself under his successors.

"I want to let the Iraqi people know we are very committed to looking at all other facilities" run by the Interior Ministry, Mr. Khalilzad told a news conference in the fortified compound known as the Green Zone, the principal center of American power in Iraq.

He said it was "unacceptable for this kind of abuse to take place" and added that he wanted Iraqis to know that American officers were being assigned to police commando units and other Interior Ministry forces, as well as "security institutions" under ministry control, "so that they can observe how raids are carried out, how people are taken into custody."

The Wolf Brigade has been implicated by Iraqi human rights groups and Sunni Arabs in a wide pattern of torture and killing, mostly of Sunni Arabs who the commandos have sought for links to the insurgency raging across the Sunni heartland or in revenge for the widespread torture and killing in Mr. Hussein's years in power.