(Myrtle Beach): Chalabi symptomatic of war's ills

[salin]

Chalabi symptomatic of war's ills

Posted on Sat, May. 29, 2004
U.S. IN IRAQ


Chalabi symptomatic of war's ills

MYRIAM MARQUEZ


The rise and fall of Ahmad Chalabi should send Americans a code red about the Bush administration's botched war in Iraq.

Either Chalabi, an Iraqi exile during Saddam Hussein's reign of terror and the darling of neocons from sea to shining sea, lied to U.S. officials about those infamously invisible weapons, mobile biological-weapons labs and Saddam's supposed nuclear build-up in the mother of all power grabs - or President Bush, itching to finish off the war his father started, bought the lies knowingly.

To the tune of $340,000 a month for "valuable tactical intelligence" provided by Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress in exile as America prepared to invade Iraq on what has turned out to be "deliberately misleading" information, as Secretary of State Colin Powell calls it.

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[KC21304]

1. Great article. Many twists and turns. What to believe. n/t

[left is right]

2. Of course *co knew he was a lair

They chose him because he was a proven liar and thief. They thought Chalabi would fit right in with their own lying, thieving plans. People who have criminal tendencies tend to seek out other criminals