Winning Friends and Influencing People Though the Military has managed to get Jeremy Sivits to take the rap in order to avoid the larger picture...the larger picture is emerging nonetheless. And it isn't pretty. How many other such stories as this one?

The Americans praised him for his "truly historic" contribution to democracy and reconstruction. But when they found him in a house in Baghdad during a raid, they threw him into the Abu Ghraib prison for 144 days -- without ever charging him with a crime... ...Teacher Najim, as he was known in his hometown of Umm Qasr, was the first person in his town to criticize Saddam Hussein and give his support to the U.S.-led coalition. He worked so hard for the coalition that they gave him a "certificate of achievement" for his "exceptional service" and "loyalty" to the rebuilding of Iraq. But last fall, while visiting Baghdad, he was swept up in a U.S. military raid. Despite his protestations, it took more than 20 weeks before he was released this spring.