Chalabi In Comeback, Siding With Shiites (NYT)

[bobthedrummer]

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Ahmed Chalabi is a major player in the upcoming Iraq election with Shiite support.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/03/international/middleeast/03chalabi.html?pagewanted=all

[shrike]

1. Like a cockroach, he can't be killed

When the bomb drops, cockroaches, Cher and Chalabi will be left.

[bemildred]

2. Really starting to look for the exit now, aren't we?

Why not just ask Iran to annex Iraq?

[blm]

3. Just as BushInc planned. Did anyone really believe that Bush turned

against Chalabi? It was a ruse so the Iraqi people will support Chalabi. Before they saw him as a puppet for Bush. So BushInc pretended to work against Chalabi.

Now, if Allawi or Chalabi wins election, BushInc is still in control.

[gWbush is Mabus]

4. exactly

[Cronus Protagonist]

15. Exactly, he's a mole for the US

No informed person would doubt it.




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[saigon68]

18. HERE'S THE MOTHER FUCKER IN ALL HIS GLORY

Right above "pickles" the douche "bag"

[Cronus Protagonist]

20. Here's how he got invited....

[seemslikeadream]

5. I can't get to the link, was that a Judith Miller article?

:shrug: ;-)



:hi:

[bobthedrummer]

6. No, it's by Edward Wong.

:hi:

[Tempest]

7. Edward Wong, another Chalabi useful idiot

Wong has written other glowing articles about Chalabi, and has been linked to Miller in some stories.

[bobthedrummer]

8. It was Ahmed's nephew, Salem Chalabi, that granted concessions to US

businesses for "reconstruction" and other "tasks" in Iraq.
:mad:

[zann725]

13. Isn't Chalibi's son (or nephew?) the attorney who...

now represents Saddam in his War Crime trial? Thought I heard that on a fleeting news blurb about 3 months ago. Then nothing more about it. I just remember laughing out loud at the absurdity of it.:crazy:

[seemslikeadream]

9. Chalabi takes aim at CIA, Iraq occupation

Washington, DC, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The controversial head of the Iraqi National Congress takes aim at the CIA and the American occupation of Iraq in a newly published interview.

"The biggest error was occupation. Of course, the United States should have liberated Iraq, but it should never have occupied Iraq and tried to run this country along the lines of a colony," said Ahmad Chalabi in an interview with the conservative think tank Middle East Forum. "What did 14 months of occupation achieve? The electricity still doesn't work; thousands are dead; the United States has lost the moral high ground in the Middle East, and the U.N., which opposed the liberation of Iraq, has been allowed to impose Baathists back on the Iraqi people."

Chalabi -- whose Baghdad home was the subject of a U.S.-led raid -- also dismissed charges that his organization delivered bogus intelligence prior to the war.

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http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041203-054404-7407r.htm

[daleo]

14. Did he think the U.S. would invade and just bugger off?

I mean, get real, Chalabi. Chalabi is hard to figure. Either this is an elaborate ruse to get Bush's favorite rehabilitated, or he is going for the main chance. If he lives much longer it is probably the former. If he dies in a hail of gunfire soon, it is probably the latter.

[NYC]

10. I wish the Jordanians would do something about extradition.

I think everyone has seen enough of Chalabi.

[bobthedrummer]

17. Very good point.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. I guess he has recieved his briefing from Langley and is

back on track.

[Chicago Democrat]

12. Holy Shiite!

doh!

[msgadget]

16. Castigated but not arrested?

[acmavm]

19. The thing that makes me wonder where the Sunnis fit in to this equation.

Al Sadr has popular appeal with the Shi'ites, and the Sunnis seemed to support his defiance of the Coalition as well last February (or March). But dragging Chalabi into his party might not be that smart. Chalabi is absolutely hated by many Iraqis, just like Allawi is. And Chalabi totally wants all Baathists shut out of power or worse. So where does this leave us? Just another possible scenario for the coming civil war? I can't help but wonder because, like bush*, Chalabi may be able to reinvent himself over and over again. But that doesn't stop everything he touches from turning into a big shit heap.

If this is just a sneaky way for the neos to retain control, I doubt it will work. Just too many people hate Chalabi. And the Sunnis, I don't see them going along with it either.

Nothing good can come out of this. Because the final irony may be that even though the neos think they boy Chalabi may come out on top in the end, I think that he could very well turn on them in the end, after he gets what he wants. Isn't that what he usually does?

This situation just boggles the mind.