Iraq's Bestest Friend

I caught Condi Rice's interview with someone today - who probably doesn't matter since almost all of the sad press corps lobs her only softball questions that she always answers haltingly, like she's lying even when, perhaps, she is not - in which she said something like this:

"Iraq has had no better friend than the United States."

Uh, really?

We talk about rebuilding schools and hospitals and the infrastructure and electricity, but those things were in place and operational when we went in during March 2003. We took them out. Tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of Iraqis have died under us.

Far more people there are going hungry, homeless, scared, without family or jobs than ever before. They see violence and American occupation everywhere they look.

So are we really Iraq's best friend? Because, if we are, I sure as hell don't want to meet Iraq's mortal enemy.