Guess who "has re-emerged as a central figure in the latest U.S. strategy for Iraq" accord to McClatchey's Nancy Youssef? That's right: Ahmed Chalabi! Let the good times roll.
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Confidence Level Sinking
28 Oct 2007 07:14 pm
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They may be hatching a plan to install him as PM.
Awesome! I can't wait to invade again!
But this will give you confidence:
So bizarre that Petraeus and his hacks must have been drunk when they wrote it.
Salon.com. Glenn Greenwald. SUNDAY OCTOBER 28, 2007 07:18 EST
“A bizarre, unsolicited email from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman”
If only drunkenness would explain WAPO's Hyatt's behavior, but sadly his behavior is more insidious-- deliberate deception and corruption.
I wonder if Chalabi is urging us to attack Iran?
Anyways, for a minute there, I thought you were gonna say 'Nancy Pelosi'.
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['If we just raise the minimum wage and promise to torture them nicely...']
Gotta laugh at this.
Petraeus makes a big case for Iran being behind everything, then hires Chalabi, an Iranian agent (when he isn't an embezzler or whatever other crimes he's committed.)
You can't make this stuff up.
Reminds me of Kissinger's uses of insanity and the bombing of Hanoi during our the period of our peace overtures.
Call me Mister Due Process Guy, Soft On Criminals, We Can't Afford This Soft Shit In Time Of WAR! Guy, but the case for Chalabi being an Iranian agent has never been proved or even brought to trial. Although Chalabi's disgraceful litany of bullshit was a big part of what got us into the war, I would still counsel against anyone taking unsupported and unsubstantiated CIA accusations (which they haven't even bothered to repeat) as fact. Chalabi is being brought in because he is actually a popular and shrewd politician (plus say what you like about the guy, and I will, out of all the expat Iraqi war chorus, he's one of the few who had the stones to actually go back there and put his life on the line in the name of Iraqi democracy, rather than figuring that his beloved homeland was best helped from a well-paid think tank job in the USA). I actually think that the speed with which the "Decent Left" dropped Chalabi (and after all, it could hardly have been because he lied about WMD, could it?) was one of the more disgusting things they did.
? B?s 2003 all over again. Chalabi's back and we're doing feel-good projects like health clinics. Probably even painted a school or two. Film at 11. But -- say what? -- all the doctors now live in Syria and Jordan. Oops. God, will this never end?
Does sound like old AC is in a good spot to rake off a bunch of money, though. He's always got an angle, or more than one.
D2: You might be right - I'm going on vague memories of things I read years ago, though I thought that the whole 'Iran' thing was getting stirred up well before the US govt decided they hated him. Also, having never been a decent leftist, I distrusted Chalabi from the beginning, and I recall reading red-flag evidence of snakery (mostly from I think Josh Marshall and Laura Rozen) deriving from even back into the 90s.
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Heads in the Sand
This is fishy. The administration was pretty pissed at Chalabi after it realized he had suckered them (like six times over). Including, you know, by being an Iranian double agent. I wondered if maybe this was a middle finger from Maliki or something, but the article doesn't suggest anything about the politics behind this.
Posted by Toadmonster | October 28, 2007 8:10 PM