perfidy

In this article, Charles Krauthammer offers a good prespective on what we've accomplished so far in the war on terror. The part I found most interesting was this, on the recent hooforah over the uranium thingie. (Thingie!):

The fact that the Democrats and the media can't seem to let go of it, however, is testimony to their need (and ability) to change the subject. From what? From the moral and strategic realities of Iraq. The moral reality finally burst through the yellowcake fog with the death of the Hussein brothers, psychopathic torturers who would be running Iraq if not for the policy enunciated by President Bush in that very same State of the Union address.

That moral reality is a little hard for the left to explain, considering the fact that it parades as the guardian of human rights and all-around general decency, and rallied millions to prevent the policy that liberated Iraq from Uday and Qusay's reign of terror.

This has amazed me for some time. The left is the champion of the downtrodden masses, the oppressed and suffering. Why did they try so hard to keep these particularly downtrodden, oppressed and suffering masses from being helped? Even if they believe that Bush is satan incarnate, an alliance of convenience to help the oppressed might have been a good idea, then go back to trying to overthrow the evil republicans.