Digby: Whiplash

It's amazing to realize that Lucianne Goldberg's offspring gets paid good money to write things like this in the Los Angeles Times.

Following on this new hagiography of free-market guru and all around successful leader Augusto Pinochet, Goldberg bizarrely implies that "the left" is agitating for an Iraqi Fidel, and argues that Iraq would be better off with an Iraqi Pinochet instead. He actually says, "if only Ahmad Chalabi had been such a man."

After all, Pinochet may have tortured and killed his political opponents for years, but it all came out ok in the end after he left office.