Jacob highlights (first here, then here) a deeply troubling and shamefully unreported story: US troops being used to destroy and dismantle Iraqi trade union headquarters and arrest their leaders - this in the context of continued US maintenance of Ba'athist labor laws. Of course, it's easy to become numb to this kind of rank hypocrisy from this administration - but vital not to. Enforcing Saddam's Pinkerton policies ranks up there with appealing to Cuban sovereignty to justify abusing POWs in Camp X-Ray and co-operating with the "evildoers" at the UN to hamstring global access to contraception. Let's not forget the Bush Doctrine: If you can make something that others value, you should be able to sell it to them. If others make something that you value, you should be able to buy it. This is real freedom... Those other freedoms are just to be trotted out when the situation calls for a moral fig leaf. Lodge your protest here.