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Dabuya has elevated deceit of the American people to a new art form. True to neo-con form, he always has a public explanation for the inconsistency between reality and his truth. He launched pre-emptive strikes on Iraq because of non-existent WMD, imagined al-Qaeda connections and anger over 9-11, caused an estimated 1.2 million to be killed and another 4.3 million to be refugees. However, he also managed to attract al-Qaeda into Iraq, forget to find Osama Bin-Laden and threaten Iran with destruction over suspected nuclear development. He disrespected and violated the U.S. Constitution, suspended Habeas Corpus, reduced human rights, authorized torture under other names and championed a so-called "War on Terror".

He may be remembered as the "Butcher of Baghdad", due to the sectarian violence and ethnic cleansing that Bush allowed, after deposing Saddam Hussein. He insisted that he had brought freedom and democracy to Iraq, but it didn't resemble the political practices of any pluralistic or liberal democracy known elsewhere. The new Iraq government was a license for favoritivism and corruption by the political party in charge of a given ministry. The government coffers became the spoils for division among loyal retainers. That closely paralleled the profiteering by politically-connected companies that were hired to provide mercenaries and other services, all paid for by the American tax-payers.

Bush used the United Nations when he considered that convenient, but otherwise criticized and ignored it. He failed to maintain U.S. funding of the U.N. at agreed upon levels. He opposed the International Criminal Court, except for his enemies. He largely replaced the principle of rule by law with a pompous attitude. He ignored international law and the Geneva Convention when it came to treatment of prisoners of war. Anyone considered to be a suspected terrorist, even if unarmed, was authorized for immediate killing.

Those deemed "enemy combatants" were denied access to a lawyer or court and subject to "extraordinary rendition" for torture abroad. Some disappeared into a gulag of torture camps called "black sites". Those who remained in American custody were sexually humiliated or abused, subjected to near drownings, stripped nude and left in frigid atmosphere after having cold water dumped on them or told to behave as a dog on a leash in humiliating techniques re-engineered from practices of the former USSR and its allies.

Dabuya's perspective on law and order was highly

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