In a Seattle Time December 7 article by Amit B. Paley of the Washington Post, George W. Bush style democracy in Iraq for detainees who have been incarcerated in Iraq prisons for years is described:

"The Iraqis are not charged with crimes, permitted to see the evidence against them or provided lawyers."

And how the proceeding to determine who can be released was described:

"Talib Mahammed Farkhan, who had been imprisoned for 15 months, shuffled into hearing room three to hear his U.S. captors explain the allegations against him for the first time.