Knowing whom to oppose: the silence of the world in the face of what was going on before is just stunning

While TI takes on Euro hero Pascal Lamy (and his blog), Paul A Gigot brings us a portrait of Euro-villain Paul Wolfowitz:

I watched him focus on Iraq over the decade after Saddam Hussein was allowed to retain the helicopters that slaughtered the Shiites and kept him in power. Mr. Wolfowitz was in the Pentagon at the time and has believed ever since that, if we didn't take out Saddam Hussein, the dictator would someday take his revenge on us. In his new job representing the world, Mr. Wolfowitz has taken a vow of near-silence on Iraq. But suffice it to say he still believes toppling Saddam was the right thing to do.

"I just heard today from Ann Clwyd," a British Labour politician recently in Iraq, [Paul Wolfowitz] says, and she "was telling me about the work of the Free Prisoners Association, which documents the death certificates of people executed . . . and she said it's over 300,000. I mean, if you think it's bad now — the silence of the world in the face of what was going on before is just stunning."