Remember back in 2004 when Bush appointed a car bomber as the Iraqi Prime Minister?

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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/30/1088488024222.html

Born under a cloud of irony

July 1, 2004

Did the US rid Iraq of a dictator, only to replace him with a terrorist of the CIA's making, asks Robert Scheer.

The ironies are flowing thicker than crude oil in Iraq these days. First, the United States surreptitiously turns over nominal control of the country to a government appointed by outsiders while leaving real power in the hands of US military commanders and calls it an exercise in democracy.

And although the interim Prime Minister is a former member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party who later conducted anti-Saddam terrorist operations on behalf of the CIA - operations in which innocent Iraqi civilians may have been killed - his anointment as leader of a "free Iraq" is being hailed by US President George Bush as a great victory in the war on terror.

According to several former intelligence officials interviewed by The New York Times last month, the political group run by interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi in the 1990s, but financed by the CIA, "used car bombs and other explosive devices smuggled into Iraq" in an attempt to sabotage and destabilise Saddam's regime. snip

When Allawi was picked for the prime minister's post through an opaque selection process ostensibly run by a United Nations representative, former CIA Iran-Iraq analyst Kenneth Pollack justified the agency's earlier use of Allawi as a terrorist with the comment "send a thief to catch a thief". But the question now is: Do you send a thief to build a democracy?

There has been little media follow-up to reports early last month that Allawi's work for the CIA amounted to much more than trying to win hearts and minds. Yet what we do know is damning enough.