Nah, perhaps not, but even then it's understandable. I mean this: we don't have to scold HRW beforehand. Even if it is the truth it is no news. It's been this way ever since Man took over the planet. In every tyranny that's been overthrown, the old guard system had to be employed, for better or for good. And it is in their genes to go with the old routines, they can't help it themselves and will continue for sometime to act according to their nature. Rome wasn't built in a day. See Russia after Gorbachev, or the old GDR, or Rumania, or...the list is endless. It does not surprise me in the least and does not detract anything from the good intentions of the Iraq Invasion.