Chalabi: opportunist or miscast servant of the Iraqi people?

[dArKeR]

THE GUARDIAN , LONDON
Monday, Apr 26, 2004,Page 6

Ahmad Chalabi, the controversial leader of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) and one-time candidate of Washington's neo-conservatives as future leader of Iraq, appears set to be denied a senior role in the future government.

The man once championed by both the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney has become the focus of criticism by ordinary Iraqis, his former political allies and international officials involved in the country's reconstructiothat Chalabi is likely to be the most senior of a number of members of the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) who will be sidelined when a new interim government is selected to run Iraq after the transfer of sovereignty on 30 June.

According to the newspaper, Washington is also considering cutting off the US$340,000 monthly stipend to Chalabi's INC party, which has been accused of inappropriately using the money to lobby in the US.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/04/26/2003138160

[bemildred]

1. Aw, come on, how about convicted criminal and thief?

Quisling traitor. Fraud. Corrupt sycophant.

[NMDemDist2]

2. yeah What she said! n't

[Pallas180]

3. how bout plain old fashioned arab rug dealer - liar -" they'll greet you

with candy and flowers and kisses" - I don;t think that was for the
American people's consumption, they're too street wise for that crap - it was for that bunch of dummies in the WH

[dArKeR]

4. 'old fashioned Drug dealer' more like it. I bet they're using Afghanistan

as a source of money. And the Chinese are probably the ones taking the opium across China to the Port of Shanghi. Next stop, Neil Bush Crime Family.

[Pallas180]

5. they got away with it with Iran Contra, so why not try again. like obl

they repeat themselves. repeating all the same moves granddaddy's friend adolph did.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Why would this administration believe the word of a big-time

bank defrauder? Is it a character requirement for this administration to put people in positions of power only if they are convicted felons?

[the Kelly Gang]

7. scoundrel of the first order !

[DinahMoeHum]

8. A goniff.

Pure and simple.

:evilfrown:

[PATRICK]

9. Embarrassing over the top

bragging with total impunity how he suckered the US. That impolitic bravado, so typical of our white neocon criminals on the homefront probably seemed fitting from the example of the company he kept, but it behooves a colonial puppet to be circumspect on behalf of the political sensitivities of his American overlords- running for office.

But he got all he wanted and, like Sharon, Chalabi thinks he can push Bush around. Hell, all of the cons have that attitude and it never has consequences with regards to their partners in crime and not for the duped American populace- at least not yet.