Comments on: ‘Hero In Error’ Chalabi Makes Political Comeback To Lead Iraqi End Of Escalation Strategy http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:14:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Think Progress » Blog Archive » After Five Years In Iraq, Richard Perle Claims ‘We Can’t Turn This Thing Around Overnight’ http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-4351854 Think Progress » Blog Archive » After Five Years In Iraq, Richard Perle Claims ‘We Can’t Turn This Thing Around Overnight’ Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:27:02 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-4351854 [...] Earlier this week, Iraq war architect Richard Perle defended the 2003 invasion of Iraq, writing in the New York Times that “the right decision was made.” “We blundered into an ill-conceived occupation that would facilitate a deadly insurgency,” argues Perle, because we didn’t immediately hand power to Iraqi exiles like Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi. [...] [...] Earlier this week, Iraq war architect Richard Perle defended the 2003 invasion of Iraq, writing in the New York Times that “the right decision was made.” “We blundered into an ill-conceived occupation that would facilitate a deadly insurgency,” argues Perle, because we didn’t immediately hand power to Iraqi exiles like Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi. [...]

]]> By: nobody http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1905392 nobody Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:44:01 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1905392 the only genuine Farsi speaker the Bushites could buy, Chalabi often uses his skills to sell information to Iran. Maybe he is even employed by Iran to provocate the destruction of Iraq, lobbying the United States Congress and bribing the administration. try not to imagine if the resources of Iran were devoted to lobbying along the same lines as multinational military industry corporations... it might almost threaten our very way of life. the only genuine Farsi speaker the Bushites could buy, Chalabi often uses his skills to sell information to Iran. Maybe he is even employed by Iran to provocate the destruction of Iraq, lobbying the United States Congress and bribing the administration.

try not to imagine if the resources of Iran were devoted to lobbying along the same lines as multinational military industry corporations… it might almost threaten our very way of life.

]]> By: Jay Randal http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1882391 Jay Randal Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:04:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1882391 Chalabi is a corrupt con-man so the kind of scum that Bush likes > lol. Chalabi is a corrupt con-man so the kind of scum that Bush likes > lol.

]]> By: big papa http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1881021 big papa Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:16:26 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1881021 Comment by Marie #31 <strong>I guess we're staying...</strong> Comment by Marie #31

I guess we’re staying…

]]> By: Marie http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1879309 Marie Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:51:10 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1879309 The <strong>$1.3 billion </strong>embassy we are building in the green zone has a staff of 1,000, and it is the largest US embassy in the world, at 104 acres. Walls 15 feet thick, self contained water and power plants, and a budget of $3.5 million per year. Only 3% of those staffed speak Arabic. It is being built with American contractors while Iraqis are unemployed, get 4 hours of electricity each day. So far, Iraqi reconstruction has cost <strong>$34 billion</strong>. This war/occupation is costing us $275 million each day. The $1.3 billion embassy we are building in the green zone has a staff of 1,000, and it is the largest US embassy in the world, at 104 acres. Walls 15 feet thick, self contained water and power plants, and a budget of $3.5 million per year. Only 3% of those staffed speak Arabic.
It is being built with American contractors while Iraqis are unemployed, get 4 hours of electricity each day.
So far, Iraqi reconstruction has cost $34 billion.
This war/occupation is costing us $275 million each day.

]]> By: Outraged in Louisville http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1879194 Outraged in Louisville Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:44:12 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1879194 I called the Senate Armed Service Committee today about the Chalabi story. The young man I spoke to had never heard of Chalabi and had no idea why the story about his new job as "intermediary between Baghdad residents and Iraq & US forces" is something we can't ignore. This is a problem that we must address. Thanks to TP for the list of articles about Chalabi. Now how do we get this message to the MSM? How do we get Congress to investigate Chalabi's new job and demand that the US have nothing more to do with this crook? PS: Watch for glowing stories about how the escalation is a smashing success -- written of course, with information from Ahmed Chalabi. I called the Senate Armed Service Committee today about the Chalabi story. The young man I spoke to had never heard of Chalabi and had no idea why the story about his new job as “intermediary between Baghdad residents and Iraq & US forces” is something we can’t ignore. This is a problem that we must address.

Thanks to TP for the list of articles about Chalabi. Now how do we get this message to the MSM? How do we get Congress to investigate Chalabi’s new job and demand that the US have nothing more to do with this crook?

PS: Watch for glowing stories about how the escalation is a smashing success — written of course, with information from Ahmed Chalabi.

]]> By: BK http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1878922 BK Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:20:38 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1878922 Good Christ, talk about insult to injury. Hasn't it become clear to all of you yet? The republicans will use any, or all excuses, their think tanks can produce, to keep our Troops in the Pit of Hell called Iraq. This is an indisputable fact at this point. As soon as the Anti War faction brings up one of a million reasons to end this Mobile/Exxon war of extermination, the republicans simply move the goal post, to justify staying and escalating the US subjugation of a defeated, and totally defenseless nation. Now ask yourselves , "Why". A hint, it starts with an O and ends with an L. And from what I have seen on off shore news websites, the liberators are stealing every thing not nailed down. Not to mention the potential fortune to be made with the sale of un- metered oil exports. The US controls the source, and no doubt is raking in the billions, simply by shuting off the meter. What is our oil doing under all of that Iraqi sand? Must be another plot by Sadamm. Good Christ, talk about insult to injury.

Hasn’t it become clear to all of you yet?

The republicans will use any, or all excuses,
their think tanks can produce, to keep our
Troops in the Pit of Hell called Iraq. This is
an indisputable fact at this point. As soon
as the Anti War faction brings up one of
a million reasons to end this Mobile/Exxon
war of extermination, the republicans simply
move the goal post, to justify staying and
escalating the US subjugation of a defeated,
and totally defenseless nation.

Now ask yourselves , “Why”. A hint, it
starts with an O and ends with an L. And
from what I have seen on off shore news
websites, the liberators are stealing every
thing not nailed down. Not to mention the
potential fortune to be made with the sale
of un- metered oil exports. The US controls
the source, and no doubt is raking in the
billions, simply by shuting off the meter.
What is our oil doing under all of that Iraqi
sand? Must be another plot by Sadamm.

]]> By: Marie http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1878102 Marie Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:41:24 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1878102 This is the swine that Bush tried to deny even knowing a few years ago. Then he was sitting at the SOTU with Laura! This international criminal has weaseled his way into the trough of Iraq and Bush&Co are OK with it because they recognize one of their own in the pig pen. This is the swine that Bush tried to deny even knowing a few years ago. Then he was sitting at the SOTU with Laura! This international criminal has weaseled his way into the trough of Iraq and Bush&Co are OK with it because they recognize one of their own in the pig pen.

]]> By: Marie http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1878063 Marie Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:38:35 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1878063 This is a jaw-dropping piece of news. Outrage is not strong enough to describe it. This is a jaw-dropping piece of news. Outrage is not strong enough to describe it.

]]> By: rachel http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1877660 rachel Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:37:37 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1877660 http://newsmine.org/ News and Document archive source for uncovering and exposing with over 10,000 articles and documents http://newsmine.org/

News and Document archive source for uncovering and exposing
with over 10,000 articles and documents

]]> By: Antryg Windrose http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1877459 Antryg Windrose Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:06:44 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1877459 Woops, cut myself off there... I was saying, only old farts remember the Borg now, from back in the Reagan years. But many of the current players cut their political teeth then, couldn't get the dictatorship going full-blast, but now is their golden opportunity. Emotions and dreams are manipulated and assimilated, reality is discarded, control is imposed. And public outcry doesn't matter. Woops, cut myself off there… I was saying, only old farts remember the Borg now, from back in the Reagan years. But many of the current players cut their political teeth then, couldn’t get the dictatorship going full-blast, but now is their golden opportunity. Emotions and dreams are manipulated and assimilated, reality is discarded, control is imposed. And public outcry doesn’t matter.

]]> By: Antryg Windrose http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1877409 Antryg Windrose Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:59:39 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1877409 "I am BillGates of Borg. Your software will be assimilated." "I am Flatulus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Pull my finger." "I am Dyslexic of Borg. Your ass will be laminated." "I am Dubya of Borg. Desistance is rutile, or whatever." Of course, only old farts remember the Borg now, from b “I am BillGates of Borg. Your software will be assimilated.”

“I am Flatulus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Pull my finger.”

“I am Dyslexic of Borg. Your ass will be laminated.”

“I am Dubya of Borg. Desistance is rutile, or whatever.”

Of course, only old farts remember the Borg now, from b

]]> By: CalGal http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1877048 CalGal Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:10:53 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1877048 I'm sure this is going to be a great help to Bush's "surge" efforts! I think we should let all the criminals out of jail and put them in the White House where they belong. I can't even carry on a rational though about these people anymore. I’m sure this is going to be a great help to Bush’s “surge” efforts! I think we should let all the criminals out of jail and put them in the White House where they belong. I can’t even carry on a rational though about these people anymore.

]]> By: theswan http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1876914 theswan Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:51:43 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1876914 So georgie takes Ahmed back under his wing? A trusted partner once again. Working for the Americans and the Iranians at the same time. What will be Ahmed's next slight of hand? George must know. They play the same games. So georgie takes Ahmed back under his wing? A trusted partner once again. Working for the Americans and the Iranians at the same time.

What will be Ahmed’s next slight of hand? George must know. They play the same games.

]]> By: Bluestocking http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1876876 Bluestocking Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:45:22 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1876876 Am I the only one who thinks that this is the political equivalent of giving the fox the keys to the henhouse?!? For pity's sake, this is the same man who got us into this mess to begin with. The informant known as "Curveball" who allegedly provided a lot of the intelligence (if it can even be remotely called that) upon which the war was justified is supposedly the brother of one of Chalabi's top lieutenants -- not to mention, according to German intelligence officials, an unreliable and mentally unstable alcoholic. Do we also need to be reminded that the Jordanians have a prison cell just waiting for Chalabi because he's been convicted of bank fraud in that country? Chalabi is crooked, corrupt, self-serving, and duplicitous -- and the fact that the Bush administration is apparently willing to trust him again indicates that they are either out of their tiny little minds or equally as corrupt as he is, possibly both. Am I the only one who thinks that this is the political equivalent of giving the fox the keys to the henhouse?!? For pity’s sake, this is the same man who got us into this mess to begin with. The informant known as “Curveball” who allegedly provided a lot of the intelligence (if it can even be remotely called that) upon which the war was justified is supposedly the brother of one of Chalabi’s top lieutenants — not to mention, according to German intelligence officials, an unreliable and mentally unstable alcoholic. Do we also need to be reminded that the Jordanians have a prison cell just waiting for Chalabi because he’s been convicted of bank fraud in that country? Chalabi is crooked, corrupt, self-serving, and duplicitous — and the fact that the Bush administration is apparently willing to trust him again indicates that they are either out of their tiny little minds or equally as corrupt as he is, possibly both.

]]> By: J-rock http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1876825 J-rock Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:38:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1876825 The administration feels it can commit any outrageous act, from funding the fraud-thief-liar Chalabi, to attacking Iran, without fearing any public outrage, just because public opinion is irrelevant. The Bush Gang has power, will use power, and will not relinquish power. The dictatorship is in place; get used to it. Comment by Antryg Windrose And this is why I think even George Orwell would have rubbed his eyes to see the state of affairs today. No longer needed are memory holes down which to flush inconvenient documentary evidence. Even documentary evidence yields now to bold lies, and people forget that which they cannot bear to remember. All you need is doublethink. <em>I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile.</em> The administration feels it can commit any outrageous act, from funding the fraud-thief-liar Chalabi, to attacking Iran, without fearing any public outrage, just because public opinion is irrelevant. The Bush Gang has power, will use power, and will not relinquish power. The dictatorship is in place; get used to it.

Comment by Antryg Windrose

And this is why I think even George Orwell would have rubbed his eyes to see the state of affairs today. No longer needed are memory holes down which to flush inconvenient documentary evidence. Even documentary evidence yields now to bold lies, and people forget that which they cannot bear to remember. All you need is doublethink.

I am Locutus of Borg.

Resistance is futile.

]]> By: big papa http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1876802 big papa Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:35:13 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1876802 <strong>Ahmed Chalabi... ...the PERFECT Bushite-hero... ...man it doesn't get much better than this... ...Duhmerica, Duhmerica... ...God shed disgrace on thee... ...mmm... ..."Help us LAWD!"</strong> Ahmed Chalabi…

…the PERFECT Bushite-hero…

…man it doesn’t get much better than this…

…Duhmerica, Duhmerica…

…God shed disgrace on thee…

…mmm…

…”Help us LAWD!”

]]> By: wills http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1876571 wills Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:02:15 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1876571 That man is the biggest reason not to allow this "surge". He was a lying crook from the beginning. That man is the biggest reason not to allow this “surge”. He was a lying crook from the beginning.

]]> By: Antryg Windrose http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1876243 Antryg Windrose Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:35:27 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1876243 <b>"Is it just me, or is it getting positively surreal these days?"</b> --j.rock "May you live in interesting times." --old Chinese curse Is anyone surprised that an administration of liars and thieves would honor and support one of their own? It's like the boat sailing through shark-infested waters, and a lawyer falls overboard, and the sharks approach him but then swim away. After being rescued, he's asked why the sharks didn't attack, and he replies, "Professional courtesy." The administration feels it can commit any outrageous act, from funding the fraud-thief-liar Chalabi, to attacking Iran, without fearing any public outrage, just because public opinion is irrelevant. The Bush Gang <i>has</i> power, will <i>use</i> power, and will <i>not relinquish</i> power. The dictatorship is in place; get used to it. “Is it just me, or is it getting positively surreal these days?” –j.rock

“May you live in interesting times.” –old Chinese curse

Is anyone surprised that an administration of liars and thieves would honor and support one of their own? It’s like the boat sailing through shark-infested waters, and a lawyer falls overboard, and the sharks approach him but then swim away. After being rescued, he’s asked why the sharks didn’t attack, and he replies, “Professional courtesy.”

The administration feels it can commit any outrageous act, from funding the fraud-thief-liar Chalabi, to attacking Iran, without fearing any public outrage, just because public opinion is irrelevant. The Bush Gang has power, will use power, and will not relinquish power. The dictatorship is in place; get used to it.

]]> By: Kevin Good http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/comment-page-1/#comment-1876227 Kevin Good Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:31:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/chalabis-return/#comment-1876227 A pig covered in Crisco. Good luck catching him. A pig covered in Crisco. Good luck catching him.

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