$2 Trillion worth of Justice

No matter what we've spent, no matter how many have died, we still cannot prevent this kind of an injustice.

BAGHDAD — A three-judge panel dropped charges on Monday against two former high-ranking Shiite government officials accused of using the Health Ministry to run death squads and enrich themselves.

The charges and the two-day trial were the most prominent judicial attempts to confront the factional violence that has whittled away at the government’s credibility.

But the judges found there was insufficient witness evidence to find the defendants guilty of the murder, kidnapping and corruption charges against them — a decision that shook up Sunnis and troubled some Shiites as well...

Feeding doubt about the trial’s fairness, many of the prosecution’s witnesses had been intimidated and ultimately refused to appear in court.

What we have wrought.