This makes sense. This column at The Ottawa Citizen issues a warning concerning the Iraq blog "Where is Raed?". The precis of the column is that the mysterious blogger, Salam Pax, is probably the scion of the Baathist class and that a corresponding skepticism concerning the blog's output is appropriate.

Here's an interesting insight from the column:

Salam Pax" is the crème de la crème. He drops brilliantly casual asides. For instance, one of his insightful tips to the Western journalists was that "ordinary" Iraqis despise all these exiles who have parachuted in with the U.S. military, and who have "appropriated" such private property as the old Mansour Social Club, and Iraqi Hunting Club -- which were Baathist social preserves (clubs in which Salam would likely have had memberships). He falsely suggests that these properties were obtained through "looting." (They were assigned to the exiles by the U.S. military.)

Now, Salam would never have known any "ordinary" Iraqis, unless he was interrogating one privately. He does know that Ahmed Chalabi and Kanan Makiya, the politicians coming down from free Kurdish territory, and the other exiles returning to Iraq, are the class that are trying to replace his class. They were the people who were fighting the good fight against Mr. Saddam abroad, and committed their lives irretrievably to a democratic future for the country -- when people such as Salam were making their profitable accommodations with the regime.

One has to keep in mind the nature of totalitarian regimes to corrupt everyone. Totalitarian dictators exploit complicity. One of Saddam's first acts as dictator was to have the survivors of his purge execute the victims. No one gets out untainted.