Ahmed Chalabi,
By on Dec 27th, 2005 at 2:53 pm
Ahmed Chalabi,
neo-con darling and self-styled leader of Iraqi exiles, receives 0.89 percent of the vote among Iraqi exiles. His bloc is unlikely to win a single seat in the new Iraqi National Assembly. (Via Atrios)
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Ahmed Chalabi is Swahili for “expendable stooge”.
December 27th, 2005 at 2:57 pmInteresting that the Iraqi people are better judges of character than the bush administration.
December 27th, 2005 at 3:01 pmIf only Chalabi were in charge of Iraq, we would, um, er, uh, well something would have happened, and it would have been good, so there.
December 27th, 2005 at 3:10 pm#2 – And that surprises you why?
December 27th, 2005 at 3:10 pmHey!
Why not gerrymander the population in Iraq? If the votes of the USA forces headquarter count as 90% of the votes, he can still win a mandate (?)
December 27th, 2005 at 3:17 pmMaybe.
December 27th, 2005 at 3:17 pmUh, you mean Chalabi failed at rigging the vote. Yeah, thats what you get when you align with Bubble boy, FAILURE.
December 27th, 2005 at 3:20 pmThe Rothschild Edomite Dynasty Continues,Thru Ambassadors such as Rockefeller, Soros, Buschco, and the International Bankers, History has shown these people to finance and foment wars as far back as the French War, YET Americans still sit Stupidly in front of the TV oblivious to the tyrannical inanity of so called Elite ideology.
Globalization, yet another word for Hegemony.
Empiricists and Tyrannyists, The OLD skool of Kings and Her
Havent you Had enough of the 200 year old Lies yet?
Do you see that the Democrats and the Republicans and the Neo-Kooks admit to their Lies?
And do you see any Changes?
Of course Not.
Therefore Democrats, Conservatives, and Neo-Kooks
ARE ALL FOOLS
Have you Had enough scare tactics?
Have you Had enough Wars?
Vietnam War Killed 60,000 Americans
Now we
SEE that was also
Fomented thru SIGINT
When
WILL
YOU
EVER
WAKE UP?
Are you Scared?
Chicken?
I think you are.
RE-DEMO-KOOKS
December 27th, 2005 at 3:23 pmAll of you Cowards
and Believers
of Lies
and more Lies
Beginning with the
chopping of the Cherry Tree…
Democracy Was Never designed to Be Fair, Free, Equal Or any of those “words”
It is Greek Roman ‘Ownership’ Society
YOU ARE FODDER for the
So called ELITES.
Laughing as I say that
Elite
Word.
What is Reputable?
to Repeat?
to repute?
Bush is Reputable?
Naw,
Harvard Yale Oxford Morons are
Just Re-putters,
Parrots.
Repeating what they Read.
Money is Power?
Money is paper.
Why do People give it Power?
Does money make Class?
Does money Make Smarts?
Does money make beauty?
or just the Face Paints?
or the Silicone Injections?
Is the Earth yours to Sell?
Would you sell the Gold from your Mothers Teeth?
Why do you Wear Mother Earths Gold?
Why do you Steal from your Mother Earth?
Does it not Support you?
Why do you hate your Mother?
Why do you Sell your Mother?
Because Shiny objects make Success?
Is success money?
Why is Money Success?
to buy what you can never take?
to rent what will never be yours?
Were you BORN with nothing?
and you shall Die with nothing..
EmmmmmMM HmmmmMM… SAY IT!
December 27th, 2005 at 3:29 pm#8,
I’m an un-capitalist and anti-corporatist, left-leaning libertarian anarcho-syndicalist, but these wingnut conspiracy theories are just getting a bit old. Can’t you at least rhyme the bad prose or something?
December 27th, 2005 at 3:36 pmWhere Was the New York Times When It Mattered?
NSA Spied on UN Diplomats During Push for Invasion of Iraq
By NORMAN SOLOMON
Despite all the news accounts and punditry since the New York Times published its Dec. 16 bombshell about the National Security Agency’s domestic spying, the media coverage has made virtually no mention of the fact that the Bush administration used the NSA to spy on U.N. diplomats in New York before the invasion of Iraq.
That spying had nothing to do with protecting the United States from a terrorist attack. The entire purpose of the NSA surveillance was to help the White House gain leverage, by whatever means possible, for a resolution in the U.N. Security Council to green light an invasion. When that surveillance was exposed nearly three years ago, the mainstream U.S. media winked at Bush’s illegal use of the NSA for his Iraq invasion agenda.
____________________________
Are not you Fools yet Angry?
How long will you accept this?
do you teach your Children to Lie?
Why not?
Because its wrong?
Why do you Support
Such Callous
Antics?
Is money More Important
than life?
Why do you
Not do your homework and vote
solely thru what the MEDIA tells you?
Cannot you see thru your own eyes?
Is it easier to sit by ignorantly
and hope that It
Gets Better?
somehow…
Do you think some corporate CEO cares about you as a
human?
Why do you think they
call you
human
RESOURCES?
Thats what you are
a Tool
A means of Cash flow
YOUR sweat for their Greed.
Are you Angry Yet?
what are you gonna do?
Puny Weak Public.
PUNY WEAK citizens,
the PROLES.
PROLES you are.
Slaves to the almighty Dollar
and Corporate Lies.
Ideologues
Fascism
Angry Yet?
Did you know they track your Buying Habits
thru YOUR Membership cards?
Sure, if you Suddenly buy more groceries, or use more electricity
YOU ARE
perhaps
a Drug
Dealer
or
Harboring Terrorists.
Just because you pigged out and left the refrgerator door open.
Or checked out a Book
Or worked once with a Moron
or lived beside One.
Angry Yet?
The Facial Recogntion cameras?
The Undeciperable Bar codes in your Money?
The Money that was ‘LOST’ in IraQ has
gone to The Infidels
Financing the Civil War
there.
Just as they
Planned
Do you see?
Of course you dont.
December 27th, 2005 at 3:42 pmYER IDIOTS
Killcon
YOU
ARE
A
FOOL
as Well.
It isnt a theory.
December 27th, 2005 at 3:46 pmLOOK around you FOOL
Read the NSA vietnam Sigint?
I
December 27th, 2005 at 3:50 pmcan’t
stop
pushing
the
return
key
help!
Killcon
DID you READ THE NSA
report on the Falsified
GULF of Tonkin?
DO you think that Singint was Altered BY?
YOU,
ME?
Who Then KILLCON?
you are smart I suppose, Tell me
HAVE YOU READ THIS?
If this WASNT conspired SIGINT
December 27th, 2005 at 3:50 pmWhat was iT?
TELL ME KILLCON
What was it?
Falsified Intentionally?
By WHOM
and WHY?
Tell ME KILLCON?
TELL ME WHO?
TELL ME WHY?
TELL me something,
so far YOU SAY NOTHING.
Whom do you think Backs ‘Think Lateral’?
December 27th, 2005 at 3:53 pmGeorge Soros?
Shock therapy? can you google these words and tell me what you find? Soros+shock therapy. The Tell me the results of such, and why it was so?
That’s bad… even Alan Keyes got 0.93% on Kurdistan …
December 27th, 2005 at 3:54 pmYou don’t have to read “SigInt”,all you have to do is watch “Fog of War” and you can hear McNamara admit that the first attack on the Maddox may have happened but the second attack never happened. Luv the theory tho,should keep you off the streets. That would be a bonus.
December 27th, 2005 at 3:57 pmInteresting, all that sucking up to Iran didn’t buy him any support among the Shia. If this continues he might get extradited back to Jordan. ;-)
December 27th, 2005 at 3:57 pmYou don’t have to read “SigIntâ€,all you have to do is watch “Fog of War†and you can hear McNamara admit that the first attack on the Maddox may have happened but the second attack never happened. Luv the theory tho,should keep you off the streets. That would be a bonus.
Comment by TJM
LOL!
Errol Morris. Excellent film. Knew it way back when anyway. I hope it keeps him off the streets, too.
December 27th, 2005 at 3:59 pmDO you think that Singint was Altered BY?
YOU,
ME?
The Illuminati, of course! Laura Croft only thought they all died in the cavernous tomb. That was their evil ruse…
December 27th, 2005 at 4:02 pmKill,if you know Morris, The Thin Blue Line about Randall Dale Adams,a convicted cop-killer in Dallas,Tx. was great. As I understand the story,Morris got the guy a new trial and freed when the real killer (who was the primary witness against Adams) admitted he’d lied. A good treatise against the death penalty.
December 27th, 2005 at 4:13 pmTime for a nice fat Diebold contract to keep those Iraqi elections going as planned.
-GSD
December 27th, 2005 at 5:05 pmKILLCON
IS
Bloggers Useless Bloggers.
Why You Don’t Want To
Take George Soros’s Money
October 29, 2003
Recent reports that mega-speculator George Soros is putting millions of dollars into funding think-tanks for the Democratic Party (Center for American Progress, and America Coming Together are two notable recipients), in a not-so-veiled effort to buy up the party, should raise the question: Just how does George Soros make his money? Years of investigation by LaRouche’s associates have answered that question in grisly detail: Soros’s money comes from impoverishment of the poor countries against whose currencies he speculates, and from deadly mind-destroying, terrorism-funding drugs.
We provide below a brief dossier on the low-lights of Soros’s history of theft and drug-promotion.* If, after reading this, you still want to take Soros’s money, at least have the decency to put the truth on your website: “I support drug-pushing. I’m pushing cocaine.”
SOROS THE SPECULATOR:
Hungarian-born George Soros has been involved in financial speculation since the late 1960s, at which time he established the Quantum Fund, N.V., which manages the money of leading British and Swiss financiers, including the British Royal Household. The Quantum Fund is a private investment body called a hedge fund, which is headquartered in one of the leading centers of money-laundering internationally, the Netherland Antilles.
1990: With the opening of the East Bloc, Soros moves into Poland and Russia, with “advice” for devastating economic “shock therapy,” to be administered by his associate, economist Jeffrey Sachs. Sachs’ major claim to fame was his “rescue” of the Bolivian economy, by shutting down industry, and building up the cocaine trade.
1992: In this year, Soros’s speculation made big news, as he pulled off major attacks on the currencies of Great Britain and Italy, after which he bragged about earning more than $1 billion by hurting the currencies of these nations.
1993: U.S. Congressman Henry Gonzalez (D-Texas) called for an investigation of Soros’s manipulation of foreign exchange markets, including the possibility that the same measures used against Great Britain would be used against the United States.
1995: The manager of Soros’s Management Fund, through which he controls the Quantum Fund, took out an ad in the U.S. press, which urged the Congress (then controlled by Newt Gingrich), to proceed with its budget cuts, despite the possibility of a budget impasse (train wreck), because such austerity was absolutely required for the financial markets.
1995: The Italian courts, in response to a legal brief by associates of LaRouche in Italy, launched an investigation of Soros’s role in the speculative attack on the lira in 1992. The suit was dismissed in 1999.
1997: Soros’s hedge funds launch a speculative attack against the Thai baht, in a move widely credited with triggering the great Asian financial crisis of 1997, which destroyed the economies of Indonesia, and many other nations.
SOROS THE DRUG PUSHER
1992-1994: Soros creates the Open Society Institute, and through that, both the Drug Policy Foundation and the Lindesmith Center, funneling more than $15 million for their activities, which focus heavily on changing drug laws, toward legalization.
1996: Ballot initiatives in favor of “medical marijuana” in California and Arizona, funded lavishly by Soros’s front groups, are passed. These were the front end of a campaign that encompassed up to 25 states.
1997: Soros’s Drug Policy Foundation pours money into a campaign to legalize euthanasia in Australia.
Meanwhile, in Ibero-America, Soros becomes a leading finacier of the drive to legalize cocaine. He bankrolls a meeting on Oct. 8-9, 1997 in the Colombian city of Medellin, for the purpose of pushing drug legalization, at the same time that Human Rights Watch/Americas, another major beneficiary of his funds, attacked the national forces deployed against the drug cartels as “human rights violators.” It should be noted that the pro-drug guerrillas in Colombia are known to be bloody-thirsty kidnappers, and murderers, who terrorize the nation.
In the United States, Soros worked with the pro-drug Mayor of Baltimore Kurt Schmoke, to promote “progressive” drug policies, including needle-exchange programs. Soros “donated” $25 million to spreading illegal drugs in the city.
1998: Another Soros-related group, the Andean Council of Coca Leaf Producers, begins to carry out an armed revolt in Bolivia, under the banner “Coca or Death.” The Council was established by a European group called Coca 95, whose chief financier was Soros, and whose directors call for free trade in every narcotic on the face of the earth: cocaine, heroin, marijuana and synthetics.
December 27th, 2005 at 5:35 pmSoros’s Lindesmith Center in June of this year, issues an Open Letter to Kofi Annan calling for a “truly open” dialogue on illegal drugs — claiming that clamping down on them is worse than drug abuse itself, and demanding that legalization be put on the table.
How can we always back the loser??
December 27th, 2005 at 5:35 pmIS THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY KILLCON?
December 27th, 2005 at 5:41 pmSilly Games that you play on your PC?
and an answer based on nothing, did you read the NSA report or did you Not?
Apparently you did not.
If you had you would have given the correct Answer instead of the silly one that you have supplied.
We’ve got HumInt and SigInt and acronyms galore. What there is little of here is ComInt.
December 27th, 2005 at 6:20 pmChalabi is a fat toad. He changed parties last minute and that is duly noted. I have suspicions about his sudden move. But seeing as though he is a friend of the Bush regime, I can imagine that he truly feels that votes do not matter. Or, possibly, he actually believed his people like/trust him. Can’t quite get a handle. Did he feel he would be prime minister? I’m guessing he was assured by Rummy that he would have the driver’s seat if his “intelligence” brought them the war they sought.
We have not seen the last of this nightmare, I fear.
December 28th, 2005 at 10:19 amRome doesn’t pay traitors.
December 28th, 2005 at 1:06 pmWhy does Think Progress pooh-pooh a man who is doing so much good in Iraq. The guy’s life is on the line, and Think Progress is like, “we hope bad things happen to you, even though you are doing much more than us to help the lives of the Iraqi people.”
Think Progress is callous and mean, when it comes to Chalabi. You guys won’t ever, EVER do as much as he is doing for the Iraqi people. Hell, Think Progress could have cared less what Saddam Hussein did to his people and now you have to go and villify those who actually want Iraq to be a peaceful and prosperous place?
Pathetic and shameful, and you should be disgusted with yourselves.
December 28th, 2005 at 2:34 pmBecause this man provided a lot of false intelligence to the USA about WMD and terrorists in Iraq, and following his advice, your country started a war under false pretenses. He even asserted that USA military would be greeted with flowers. Well, if you call IEDs “flowers”, he was not so misleading. He is one of the main responsibles of all those USA soldiers “on the line”.
December 28th, 2005 at 3:17 pmThe Bush Administration should follow the lead of Iraqi voters and reject Chalabi, as this article from JABBS argues.
December 28th, 2005 at 4:10 pmLyle, Chalabi sold his own people out to Bush. He gave us phony intelligence that this admin requested to back up the effort to go to war. This was going on while they were spying on the UN to see how they would vote. I find it difficult to believe that you find this man altruistic. I think you know better.
Chalabi quit his party last minute when they told him he couldn’t be prime minisiter. And why could he not be prime minister? Because his own people, his own party affiliates don’t trust him. What does that say about Chalabi and his real motives?
Lyle, do you really believe Chalabi is a good man? Arianna Huffington recently had a dinner with him and wrote about the meeting on her website. You should get informed. Don’t be naive and please, don’t just repeat what you heard on the TV, sometimes they really don’t tell the truth.
December 29th, 2005 at 11:25 amprogressive and proud,
you’re kidding right? chalabi sold his own people out? i think most iraqis are glad he “sold them out” because i’m pretty every iraqi hated Saddam.
chalabi helped to overthrow saddam hussein and end his human rights atrocities, and i for one applaud him for it.
December 29th, 2005 at 12:47 pmUh, yes, the families killed in american checkpoints are happy, happy, happy.
December 29th, 2005 at 12:55 pmkharma,
of course they’re not happy with their family members deaths, but that doesn’t preclude them from being happy about being liberated from Saddam Hussein.
war sucks. american soldiers killed french, dutch, belgian and italian civilians in wwii, but don’t you think those people were glad the Germans were defeated?
chalabi, regardless of what you say about him, is doing more than think progress is doing to help reconstruct iraq. and he may die for it. think progress isn’t going to be killed for pooh-poohing him for what he might be kill for.
it’s disgusting and shameful that the so-called sophisticates and morally righteous souls of Think Progress to degrade this man’s good work in Iraq. is he fallable? yes. but doesn’t he care a lot more about Iraq than Think Progress or anybody who posts here? presumable yes. the guy is dropping a fortune in iraq, which means jobs and, a hem PROGRESS!!!
be very ashamed Think Progress, be very ashamed.
December 29th, 2005 at 1:40 pmJust two questions, Lyle: why is Iraq needed of reconstrucion? Maybe because was destroyed by a illegal war promoted by the Bush GOP?
War is hell, but illegal wars are CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, and Bush and his GOP are war criminals, therefore.
December 30th, 2005 at 7:22 amLet’s hope Chalabi’s election results are a precursor to the Bushite, inbred, republiscum traitors’ fate in ‘06.
December 30th, 2005 at 3:01 pmThe Netherland Bankruptcy Laws
Interesting – because that is the same thing I found out last Thursday.
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