Born Under a Cloud of Irony:

"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 U.S. 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..."