Iraq Violence

Very disturbing article on CNN about gang violence against women in Iraq. The degree of violence and inhumanity is about as low as it gets. Talk of a vibrant healthy democracy in Iraq is absurd. Iraq is spiraling into oblivion - shock and awe indeed.

CNN: Iraqi: 'I killed her with a machine gun'

...an Iraqi soldier grills him about rampant crimes being carried out by gangs in the southern city of Basra.

CNN was shown what authorities say was his first confession. On it are the names of 15 girls whom he admitted kidnapping, raping and killing. The youngest girl on the list was just 9 years old.