Italian group backs Iraq fighters

Even in the face of 19 Italian military policemen dead in Iraq, the militant left in Italy is funding the Iraqi Patriotic Opposition which has ties to Baathists and also supports military resistance to the coalition in Iraq:

"We support the armed struggle in Iraq. our money is to help them, it doesn't matter to us if they use it buy weapons, Kalashnikovs, or medicines for people."

When asked to confirm if the money raised could be used to buy weapons [antiimperialistas spokesman, Moreno Pasquinelli] admitted: "Yes they could, and why not?"

If they are so concerned for Iraqi freedom, why are they attempting to restore the party that terrorized the Iraqi people to begin with? Why support the group that gasses hundreds of thousands of their own men, women and children? Why give aid to the people that imprisioned children as a means of leverage on their parents?

I can only conclude that such a group is treating the Iraqi people as a pawn to cause hurt and harm to the coalition's aims in order to advance their own militant agenda.

(hat tip to Andrew Sullivan)