So, let me get this straight. On the one hand, Dubya's crew attributes much, if not most, of the resistance in Iraq to "Saddam loyalists". On the other hand, they're actively hiring veterans of the Iraqi secret service, the Mukhabarat, whose officers were known not only for their rapaciousness, brutality, and indifference to basic human decency (and who can gainsay these as virtues for America's catspaws?), but for their deep and abiding loyalty to Saddam's regime.

Some may quibble about the morality of associating with thugs, rapists and killers, but they just don't have the stomach to do what must be done. It's clear that these, and only these, are the right people for the job...