"SCHEER HYPOCRISY"

Robert Scheer over at the LA Times has his dress over his head because the new leader of Iraq is an ex-anti-Hussein terrorist:

“…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.”

Oh, no! He was one of the good guys! Can’t have that, can we? If conducting clandestine attacks on a repressive and violent government makes a person unfit to lead, then I wonder what Scheer said about Nelson Mandela? He must have called for the United States to continue sanctions against South Africa. According to Wikipedia:

“Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) (Spear of the Nation) was the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Founded December 16, 1961, by the ANC and South African Communist Party (SACP) as the answer to the political, social and economical oppression against blacks by the South African Apartheid regime; future South African President Nelson Mandela was among its leaders. The MK carried out numerous bombings of military, industrial, civilian and infrastructural sites. Notable among these is the January 8, 1982 (to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the formation of the ANC), attack on the Koeberg nuclear power plant in Cape Town.” (emphasis mine).

Well, Mr. Scheer? Were you against Nelson Mandela, too? Now please go back to your room and leave us alone.