Ahmad Chalabi Says, 'The Real Culprit is Wolfowitz'

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003350110


'NYT' Sunday Preview: Ahmad Chalabi Says, 'The Real Culprit is Wolfowitz'


So, Ahmad Chalabi, what went wrong in Iraq in the war you helped to sell? “The Americans sold us out,” he tells longtime Baghdad reporter Dexter Filkins in a lengthy cover story in this coming Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, reviewed by E&P.

Chalabi was the Iraqi exile who worked -- via everyone from Paul Wolfowitz to Judith Miller -- to convince America to topple Saddam in 2003 (not that many in the administration needed much convincing).

Now, in an interview in his London home, Chalabi, betraying what Filkins calls “a touch of bitterness,” declares, “The real culprit in all this is Wolfowitz,” the former assistant secretary of defense, whom he still considers a friend. “They chickened out. The Pentagon guys chickened out…The Americans screwed it up.”

But that’s not because they did too little but, rather, too much. Chalabi thinks the U.S. should have exited quickly and turned things over to Iraqis, such as himself and Moktada al-Sadr. “It was a puppet show!" he says referring to the occupation. “The worst of all worlds. We were in charge, and we had no power.”

He adds: “America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I’d rather be America’s enemy.”
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[Totally Committed]

1. And, he says this JUST as there is a real clammor for Rumsfeld's neck...

Just a coincidence? You decide.

I just wonder how old Wolfowitz will feel being thrown under the bus to get people off of Bush's back about Rummy?

TC

[jimshoes]

2. One by one they are going to take their

turn under the bus until there are only a handful of likely suspects.

[Peace Patriot]

3. Now THAT made me laugh out loud! The wolf in sheep's clothing calling

the wolf in rawhides "the real culprit."

In the New York Times.