That is what David Warren seems to think:
Salam refers to the Americans slickly as the “puppet-masters.” He speaks approvingly of old Iraqi Communists organizing their poster (and subversion) campaigns, and is suddenly sympathetic when they happen to appropriate some office space. He mentions in passing linking up with a Western leftist group called “CIVIC” (Campaign for Innocent Victims In Conflict) to document civilian casualties from the U.S. invasion that liberated the country.
And this from a person who shows no guilt whatever at his own family membership in a Baathist regime that killed some hundreds of thousands of civilians — entirely on purpose. He dismisses all that as “a few bad apples,” without thinking to volunteer any sort of information on where such bad apples might now be hiding.
He builds a strong case.
(via Occam’s Toothbrush)
Jim Henley
Actually, Warren gets things factually wrong about what Salam has actually written, and may also have a case of the projections: that is, he argues that Salam’s chief purpose is engaging in class apologetics. This seems to be substantially the purpose of Warren’s own article, which puts its greatest energy into shilling for the official exile community headed by Chalabi. Warren’s chief concern seems to be assuring us that only the Bad Old Baathists have anything against the Pentagon’s house Iraqis. The least that can be said is that he demonstrates no evidence for this one way or another.