The men and women who are trying to bring down the new Iraqi state are systematically wiping out its political class.
Yes indeed, while a very few of us run around to the pleasure of television audiences worldwide, as a species we are, on a daily basis, systematically wiping out all life on Earth, and shrinking the very planet into a dusty, dry, floating raisin -- a bit of lifeless, interplanetary debris.
But over three years between 1987 and 1990, Unión Patriótica was systematically wiped out by rightwing death squads.
About that time, beginning around 1990, President Ben Ali's secret police began a campaign that systematically wiped out almost any trace of the group.
"What will become of a society that, for the most part, sits quietly as its messiahs are systematically wiped out?" said an editorial in the newspaper Dawn on Friday.
"The use of Tibetan is being systematically wiped out as part of China's strategy to cement its occupation of Tibet," Free Tibet said.
Africa's dictators have methodically and systematically wiped out their strongest opposition by demonizing, jailing, intimidating, torturing and outlawing them.
Italy's competitiveness -- never so secure -- has been systematically wiped out by its adventure with the euro.
Yet, it was in the notorious concentration camps of that country -- Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka -- that most of the 6 million murdered Jews were systematically wiped out during the Holocaust.
Those arrests are just one of the issues that spurred former US congressman Joseph Cao into calling Vietnam, "The worst violator of human rights in Southeast Asia" (and that's including Burma, a country where the Rohingya Muslim minority are being systematically wiped out, allegedly with tacit approval from the government).
The State Department estimates that the Arab militias have systematically attacked hundreds of black African villages in western Sudan and neighboring Chad, wiping out more than 300 of them.
