Chalabi welcomes WMD report as vindication

[Cocoa]

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/12143.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The head of the Iraqi exile group that provided prewar intelligence to the United States on Iraq's weapons programs said Friday a U.S. report cleared him of earlier criticism _ even though the report accused his sources of providing false information to the U.S. government.

In a statement, Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress, or INC, praised the U.S. presidential commission report released Thursday, saying it cleared his group's controversial role before the war.

"We welcome this report as a vindication," Chalabi said. "We have consistently stated that the INC played a very small role in U.S. intelligence reporting on Saddam's" weapons of mass destruction.

The report said high-level U.S. intelligence assessments on Iraq's weapons relied, in part, on information from two defectors connected to the Iraqi National Congress. Both were later determined to be lying.

However, the two INC sources were not central to the intelligence community's faulty prewar judgments, the report said.

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[Zenlitened]

1. Life in upside-down-land. "You fucked up" equals...

... vindication. Bungled it exceptionally? Here, have a presidential medal! :crazy:

[ElectroPrincess]

3. Oh you forgot the "of freedom" part ...

The people who TOTALLY devastate our Country's reputation and economy have "The Presidential Medal of Freedom" reserved for them. ;)

[Midnight Rambler]

4. This is too big a fuck-up for just a medal

Appoint the man to a cabinet post

[Toucano]

5. You've nailed it. n/t

[enki23]

6. not just "fucked up."

you FUCKING LIED = vindication, because your lies were allegedly only a small part of what led to the decision.

[chelsea0011]

2. Fuc*in' moron

[louis-t]

7. More evidence of delusions of grandeur:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20050401/ts_washpost/a17211_2005mar31&e=2
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"On the telephone that night, a senior intelligence officer warned then-CIA Director George J. Tenet that he lacked confidence in the principal source of the assertion that Saddam Hussein's scientists were developing deadly agents in mobile laboratories."
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"That was one among many examples -- cited over 692 pages in the report -- of fruitless dissent on the accuracy of claims against Iraq. Up until the days before U.S. troops entered Iraqi territory that March, the intelligence community was inundated with evidence that undermined virtually all charges it had made against Iraq, the report said."

Why is the MSM only reporting that the report lets * off the hook?
It doesn't.

[Julius Civitatus]

8. Brazen Motherf*cker

This is the typical reaction of a seasoned con-man: take the acussation and spin it around as evidence of "inocence."

Again, no matter how outrageously brazen these motherf*ckers are, they are in their right to be so: the media keeps giving them a huge pass and ignoring their repulsive lies and obvious crimes. Why shouldn't they?

[napi21]

9. Well he susre didn't hear one of the commissioners on cspan this AM.

One of the guests on WJ this AM was asked what she could tell him about Curveball. Her response certainly did not vindicate this nut.

[daleo]

10. Talk about Bush bizzarro land.

It just never ends.

[Roland99]

11. Bizarro world