Plan D: Imprison Half The Iraqi Population?

Less than three weeks ago, Rumsfeld said the US wanted to hand responsibility for Iraqi prison detainees to the Iraqi government "as soon as it is feasible".

But the Iraqi prison population has doubled in the past six months as the insurgency's "last throes" become an unending horror show. There now are about 12,000 prisoners jailed in US military detention facilities in Iraq. And the numbers are still growing.

So not only are the Yanks building more and bigger jails, they are also now deploying 700 US paratroopers as prison wardens.