CNN's Fareed Zakaria is interviewing the car bomber Bush put in charge of Iraq

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These people have no shame whatsoever. Like this guy has something to say that is meaningful to us? WTF?

http://live.thenation.com/doc/20040712/scheer0629

Born Under a Cloud of Irony

By Robert Scheer

June 29, 2004

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-Hussein 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 President Bush as a great victory in the war on terror.

According to several former intelligence officials interviewed by the New York Times this month, the political group run by interim Prime Minister Iyad 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 destabilize Hussein's regime.