It's Only Iraq and Role

It's Only Iraq and Role
Washington Post
March 14, 2003

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, or maybe at least my acquaintance?

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer on Monday talked about Iran's admission that it had a uranium enrichment program that would allow it to soon build several nuclear bombs a year. "Iran admitted the existence of these facilities only after it had no choice," Fleischer told reporters, "only because they had been made public by an Iranian opposition group."

And this was "despite the best efforts of the international community," Fleischer said, "to verify that they had it, Iran was far, far ahead of where they were believed to be in the development of this. And if it had not been for the Iranian opposition group, this, too, may have gone unnoticed."
So let's hear it for our friends, the Iranian opposition, known as the National Council of Resistance of Iran. The group has been labeled by the State Department as part of a foreign terrorist organization, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, which, by definition, is obviously an evil group. They are based in, of all places, Iraq.

So there's good and there's evil. Then there's evil which is helping good fight other evil. Ah, postwar Iraq is going to be quite the place. "Program here, get-cher program here -- can't tell the players without a program."