Petraeus Personally Introduces Disgraced Ahmed Chalabi To U.S. Troops In Iraq
Petraeus Personally Introduces Disgraced Ahmed Chalabi To U.S. Troops In Iraq
On Sunday, McClatchy reported that disgraced Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi had “re-emerged as a central figure” in the U.S. strategy for Iraq. His latest job: to press Iraq’s government to “deliver better electricity, health, education and local security services to Baghdad,” as “the next phase” of the escalation.
Today, Blackanthem.com reports that Petraeus has been trumpeting his new alliance with Chalabi, introducing him to U.S. troops serving in Iraq:
Gen. David Petraeus, commanding general, Multi-National Force-Iraq, Dr. Ahmad Chalabi, director of services in Iraq, and Dr. Safi Al-Sheik, director of the Iraqi National Reconciliation Committee, met with Soldiers and leaders of the 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga., who are operating in the Arab Jabour area.
For Petraeus to proudly introduce troops to Chalabi is particularly unfitting, considering that Chalabi has repeatedly put the lives of U.S. troops in danger in Iraq.
Before the war, Chalabi provided faulty intelligence on Iraq’s supposed weapons programs, helping launch the war. He was investigated for allegations that he passed intelligence to Iran, “wrongdoing that could have endangered American troops and American lives,” according to Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL). Furthermore, Chalabi has alliances with militia leader Muqtada al Sadr, who has led a “series of uprisings against the U.S. military.”
In February, Chalabi became a lead figure in building Iraqi support for the Bush administration’s escalation plan. Subsequently, he “sabotaged” de-Baathification reforms. Nevertheless, Petraeus’s spokesman insists that Chalabi “has a lot of energy.”
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Petraeus is a third-rate hack and a disgrace to the uniform. All the ballyhoo about him being so great was obviously bullsh*t.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:39 pmYou’ve got to be kidding! General Betray-us is definitely living up to his moniker. Chalabi has a lot of “energy” - so does human flatulence when it’s been bottled up for a while within the viscera.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:39 pmI hope that when Betray-us comes before Congress they will boo him from here to kingdom come. He’s a charlatan and a Bush pimp.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:40 pmWow. Isn’t that just dandy…?
Honestly, I’m just …floored. Chalabi is nothing but a crook. And Petraeus is no better than a pimp.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:40 pmBetray-us introducing Chalabi to the troops amounted to “One successful Bush pimp introducing another (not-so-successful) Bush Pimp. Hope the guys got a few grins out of it.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:41 pmI would like to say this is the most disgusting thing Petraus has done but getting up in front of Congress and lying through his teeth was right up there. Just amazing how this administration can out do itself everyday.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:43 pmAnd after all this time, we have to start recycling the losers Bush thrust on us at the onset of the war? Whose next, Karen Hughes for ambassador? Douglas Feith for librarian?, Paul Bremer for treasurer?
I am so sick and tired of this group of clowns. Oh yeah, where is congress? Asleep at the switch again.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:44 pmThere goes any shred of credibility Petreus ever had! This error in judgment by the Bush Cabal is akin to the true definition of insanity - attempting the same charade and expecting a different result.
Chalabi was a crook and a liar and we all know that leopards never change their spots. He’ll pimp more money out of those idiots in this administration and provide nothing but false information - once again.
I think Bush’s mental stability is in serious question and his “scapegoat/fall buy” General Betray-us isn’t far behind. Two morons licking each other’s a$$es.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:45 pmPaul Bremer should be strung up by his gonads for what he’s done in Iraq. How dare him controvert the laws of this country and that of Iraq by granting immunity to our home-grown hired “killers” (to use one of Bush’s more brilliant descriptions. - hah!). When we get to the bottom of Bremer’s “cesspool of criminal actions”, he’ll be in prison for the remainder of his life.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:47 pmChalabi is a superb con man and, as we all know, you can’t cheat an honest man: Bush and Petraeus are perfect marks for Chalabi.
The Bushies thought they’d sweep into Iraq and quickly replace Saddam with Chalabi, thereby creating a “friendly” dictatorship. Obviously, they haven’t given up on the idea and Chalabi is the perfect person to take advantage of their gullibility.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:47 pmAssClowns, every last one of them! The people are repulsed by even hearing their names, let alone seeing them on television. This nightmare called “the Bush presidency” can’t be over soon enough for 80% of americans. He’s a national disgrace and an international buffoon. Enough, already! Blech!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:48 pmChalabi’s pimping them all the way - I guess it goes without saying: There’s no pimp like an old pimp!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:48 pmPetreus’ alliance with Chalabi will render Petreus totally insignificant, without a shred of respect from americans, and impotent as a leader of our military. This alliance will bring on the mounting mutiny within the military like nothing else. It will be a feeding frenzy in the coming weeks.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:51 pmPetraeus for President or Vice, he knows how to cozy up to the super-embezzlers!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:52 pmWhat they hell are they thinking ? Do they think our troops don’t know the background of this piece of scum? I am beyond appalled ! How in the world can we support our troops when Petraeus pulls this crap.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:58 pmThe morale is so low now in Iraq with the never ending stop loss, our guys are exhausted and for this administration to even entertain this piece of dog crap and flaunt him in the face of our brave men and women is so horrible. How do these people sleep at night?
October 31st, 2007 at 7:00 pmDelivering health services to Iraqis but vetoing health services for children under SCHIP.
What, really, is going on in the White House?
October 31st, 2007 at 7:01 pmThose pictures sure do prove that you can polish a turd, but at the end of a day, it is still a turd.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:01 pmWhat’s the matter?!?!? Why rag on Chalabi? He’s our man, bought and paid for (until the next higher bidder comes in). And he’s the neocon’s wet dream….
Cheers,
October 31st, 2007 at 7:07 pmPromoting failure, it’s how Bush got where he is, and how he runs government! And the GOP still doesn’t understand why ALL of their policies fail! Ah, to be THAT STUPID in life must be a blessing - eh?
October 31st, 2007 at 7:07 pmJus the kind of pondscum we like to cultivate. Someday, Chalabi will have his neck stretched.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:09 pm#21 Amen and we can only wish that Bush and Cheney would hang beside him. They bought his lies with taxpayer money to further their lies to the American people. It is hard to be calm when this is like giving the bird to all the families who have lost a loved one for Iraq.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:12 pmWhen is this country going to stand up to the neofascists and GWB?
October 31st, 2007 at 7:15 pmThere was a comment by Jeb Bush about George, Jeb said, George was not happy just winning but had to grind the opponent into the ground. This was also said to be Rove’s dealings with competition.
By bringing in Chalibi is Bush shoving it to the American people ?
October 31st, 2007 at 7:19 pmI hope anyone that shook hands with Chalabi counted their fingers afterwards.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:20 pm“has a lot of energy” - what the hell is that supposed to mean? WTF is going on?
I guess Chalabi has run out of all the money he stole from the taxpayers - being paid by Bush to be the Puppet Dictator of Iraq?? He’s back for a second go-round - once an easy mark (aka fool like Bush) always an easy mark. Bush and Petreus are easy prey for the likes of Chalabi.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:24 pmWhat in the hell is going on? Gen. Betrayus is now introducing his BFF to the troops? Whose side is he on? What kind of Faustian deal did the general make with the devil?
October 31st, 2007 at 7:26 pmI find this very disturbing - if we had investigative journalists, they might find the truth, but alas, everyone has been either pimped by their employers or prostituted for money.
As it stands we are witnessing a charlatan, a fraud, a wanted criminal, a liar re-insert himself into politics and warfare for his own gain.
Recently my son wrote and said his buddies want to know if anyone cares about them back here. I told him people are starting to march in the streets, that many blogs have those who care very much and we are writing, calling our representatives. But even to me, that sounds so weak. Any of you who have kids in Iraq will know how this latest trick of Bush/Cheney will affect them.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:27 pmBadmoon: Yes, count fingers and toes….wallet and keys. This man is a known criminal and liar. The fact that Gen. Betray-us is parading him around like some hero before our troops would be enough to make these guys gag or roll with laughter. Comedy skit perhaps??
The fact that one who is supposed to be of such high rank and decorum as General Petreus is stooping so low as to align himself with the likes of a known criminal like Chalabi is beyond comprehension.
But then I suppose Petreus has no self-respect in doing what he’s doing right now for Bush which is being a super pimp for this war. Bush searched for a sycophant pimp for months before finding someone willing to scapegoat for him until Betray-us surfaced. When he signed on, it was already clear that he was willing to sacrifice his self-respect for service to our own dictator.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:27 pmtexaslady: Have you or anyone heard one word about all of the anti-war marches in California this past weekend on the mainstream news programs or newspapers?? I haven’t heard a thing which is reprehensible in my opinion. It’s becoming clear that the media is being controlled by the fascists who dole out precisely what they want us to hear. The fact that something like this is anti-Bush means that it will go unrecognized by the mass media. This is THE hallmark of fascism.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:29 pmMarie: I think I know the answer to your question “whose side is he on”. He’s on the “inside” and like everything from 911 to the present, it’s all been a calculated “inside job”. The coup on our democracy is almost complete and we are discovering that we’ve been duped from within. The enemy is “within” - sadly, when we discover just how deeply entrenched and how they’ve chiseled out the underpinnings of our democracy, it will be too late.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:31 pm“alot of energy” all of it negative, they left that part out.
Buck Fush
October 31st, 2007 at 7:33 pmVeritas, of all the many, many instances of recent months that have provoked me into a furious rage, this one not only enrages me, it brings me to tears of frustration — and the realization that we are lost. We have been swindled, conned and played for fools; those of us who worried and warned from the start were outshouted, outnumbered and outdone. Now more are beginning to see through the veil of secrecy and recognize the lies and betrayals, but I think it is too late.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:41 pmDid you read the WaPo story about Bush now implementing “administrative orders” with which to further circumvent the congress and do whatever the hell he pleases.
We can judge Patraeus by the company he keeps.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:43 pmBe sure to check out the latest from Glenn Greenwald and Farhood Manjoo at Salon about Colonel Steve Boylan’s bizarre email tirades. For those of you who don’t know, Boylan is Petraeus’s chief spokesman and a certifiable right wing partisan hack. The wheels are coming off poor old Steve, who it seems likes to send angry emails to anyone who criticizes Petraeus or the war. My guess is that Steve has a drinking problem, as well as a temper. Now he is resorting to lying about his emails, no doubt because he is embarrassed by some of things he has written while under the influence. It is scary that this guy is Petraeus’s mouthpiece and right hand man.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:46 pmI heard 1 sentence on 3 different channels, THAT WAS ALL!
I e-mailed every station to ask them why aren’t they televising the marches, no answer. Michael Moore’s website is showing pictures and has info.
Bush has tentacles in every media. Today a retired military officer who is anti war tried to go into Canada and was stopped because she was on the FBI list and didn’t have documents regarding prior arrests for anti-war protesting. She had been invited to speak to the Canadian Parliment by the PM.
People who don’t think we are losing liberties have their heads in the sand.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:50 pmIs this part of the grand “SURGE” strategy ?
October 31st, 2007 at 8:05 pmI hate to say I told you so, but some Tp’ers might remember I predicted this (that we were playing geo-political games to re-install Chalabi), when Chalabi’s house was raided. I predicted a CIA attempt to refurbish Chalabi’s image with regular Iraqis, first with that bogus raid, complete with “evidence” showing that he was no longer in our pocket. It’s all Kabuki, and the Big Brains have now decided the time is ripe to bring him on board again, since he’s regained some modicum of credibility with the Shia. This meet and greet with the troops is the first step to get him to do our bidding again, while keeping his “street cred” with the Shia majority.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:19 pm“The top staff of thinkprogress.org is full of anti-white rabbied arabs.”
Comment by Newsflash
And how would YOU know that? What’s a rabbi -ed arab? Sounds like one loopy non-sequitor.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:47 pmOr did you mean “rabid?”
Dictionaries aren’t that expensive, dude.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:48 pmThe top staff of thinkprogress.org is full of anti-white rabbied arabs.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 8:43 pm
You’re just pissed off because all you have in the GOP is closeted homosexuals and pedophiles ……..And they’re all stupid , white , wrinkled , and completely full of shit……..
October 31st, 2007 at 8:50 pmhttp://dictionary.reference.com/
is free…
flag the idjit. please.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:51 pm.
“You’re just pissed off because all you have in the GOP is closeted homosexuals and pedophiles ”
Did you see? Another was forced to out himself today. I think Raw Story has the details.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:52 pmThe top staff of thinkprogress.org is full of anti-white rabbied arabs.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 8:43 pm
Says the fat Mukasey/Al Qaeda welfare republican - ah the irony!
October 31st, 2007 at 8:53 pmSorry again, RHF. I’m working on that secret handshake thingie I mentioned in Thinkfast.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:55 pm“Racist.”
Comment by Newsflash
He’s seeing his reflection on the monitor screen…
October 31st, 2007 at 8:56 pmRacist.
Comment by Newsflash
They have special filters to block those pesky reflected monitor images. Try Officemax.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:58 pmThere are only two things which I can say in response to the news that the US government is working with Chalabi again…
FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU — FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME.
And (to quote George Santayana)…
THOSE WHO CANNOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:00 pm“Nah, that’s just an image of you. Racist.”
Comment by Newsflash
Now there’s the childish spew I knew you were capable of.
What’s next? Spitballs?
October 31st, 2007 at 9:00 pmJust as I was wondering what could be done with both the a) one last shred of dignity left with Betray-us and b) the one last bit of moral high ground the USA could be holding in Iraq.
Oh, and before you say Betray-us is an attack against the honor of a military man, I will reply that Betray-us is his own assault of the honor of both him as a military man and the honor of the military as a whole.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:07 pmYou’re just pissed off because all you have in the GOP is closeted homosexuals and pedophiles ……..And they’re all stupid , white , wrinkled , and completely full of shit……..
Comment by MCMetal — October 31, 2007 @ 8:50 pm
Racist.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 8:54 pm
October 31st, 2007 at 9:08 pmHey stupid ass ; how can I be “racist” when I’m white , shit-for-brains ?
By the way, McMush, you should offer your charity to those white workers who endured mass firings by the racist New Orleans D.A. — cover that $3.5 million dollar court judgment!
HA HA HA HA HA
Racist.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 8:57 pm
October 31st, 2007 at 9:13 pmI will as soon the loser occupying and stinking up the Oval Office (your retarded simian hero) , ponies up the $1 trillion of taxpayer money he’s pissed away on his idiotic Iraq adventure ; maybe you can help him with a donation from your Hulk action-figure piggy-bank , little turd ……
seriously, does petraeus have any dignity whatsoever? that’s a rhetorical question, but this one’s not: since petraeus is in the armed forces, does his overwhelming lack of self-respect mean petraeus ‘hates the troops’?
October 31st, 2007 at 9:15 pmCan you shut up for the evening, barfy?
Comment by Newsflash
You first.
You add nothing to the threads, except for your childish rants. What’s a rabbied arab? You never did say.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:19 pmIsn’t that sweet Gen. David Petraeus planning Iraq’s future with a CONVICTED FELON cHALABI , CONVICTED OF EMBEZZLEMENT IN KUWAIT .
October 31st, 2007 at 9:36 pmI mean if this doesn’t prove the devious plans for an occupation of Iraq , nothing will . Chalabi was also invited to the White House to help write Iraq’s “constitution ” , admitted by G BusH .
Chalabi never fooled the white house , he was the Iraqi insider that was there to help establish the fraudulent CPA and take control of Iraq’s oil .
Gen. David Petraeus is a liar , a typical Imperialist and complicit in the illegal OCCUPATION .
Proves that Betrayus is a bootlicking, asskissing, follower…not a leader.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:58 pmSo they caught another closeted anit-gay republican fudge packer today. Hypocrites.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:59 pmhttp://www.kirotv.com/news/14473628/detail.html
October 31st, 2007 at 10:19 pmNewsflash what goes around comes around…the way you treat others will come back…maybe not today but it will come back.
October 31st, 2007 at 10:35 pmChalabi started early as man of mystery. He did not attend our 40th class reunion. A large number of the math majors were there (all of the females); none of us had ever met him during the four years of undergraduatehood. This included some people who new EVERYBODY.
October 31st, 2007 at 10:36 pmhey, maybe Judith Miller *will* get to be Queen Of Iraq after all!
October 31st, 2007 at 10:40 pmDisgrace
October 31st, 2007 at 10:43 pmOn Sunday 1028, when the story first appeared about Gen. BetrayUs (yes, the name fits) and his statement that Ahmad Chalabi should have a major role in the future of Iraq, I just about flipped.
I emailed the networks — ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, FOX — and all major newspapers plus many reporters and asked, where is the story about Chalabi?
So far, nothing absolutely nothing. Ask your friends if they know about Chalabi’s reemergence, with Petreaus’ support, as the dominant figure in Iraq. They will know nothing, unless they read TP or other sites.
How much more depressing can it get? We’ve lost 4000 troops and God knows how many Iraqis. We’ve spend $2.4 TRILLION. Our national credibility is shot to hell. And what to we get? Chalabi.
October 31st, 2007 at 10:45 pmhttp://people-press.org/ reports/ display.php3?ReportID=366
Latest Pew poll results.
October 31st, 2007 at 10:45 pmCan we believe anything the media is telling us anymore ? The economy is growing, yet more foreclosures and bankruptcies than ever. Progress in Iraq but diplomats that should have an inside on information are protesting being sent there. Less troops are being killed but yet our neighbor was just informed their son was killed Monday. What other lives have been lost but we aren’t informed.
Has there ever been such a news blackout that anyone can remember?
October 31st, 2007 at 10:55 pmMoveOn should run the exact same ad again. If we can donate money to the drones running for President, surely we can divert a few bucks to foot part of the bill to buy the ad space. Betray-us is nothing but a pimp and he’s living up to the name as many have pointed out earlier in the thread. They don’t even try to hide it because the current Democratic leadership apparently won’t/can’t do anything about it. The spotlight should be on this, Chalabi is a two-bit hustler with no credibility to speak of and he is being introduced to the troops? Please.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:13 pmThe top staff of thinkprogress.org is full of anti-white rabbied arabs.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 8:43
Who made these Arabs rabbis Mr. President? Did they convert first or are they phoney rabbis?
October 31st, 2007 at 11:21 pmHide the Chalabi.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:36 pm>Has there ever been such a news blackout that anyone can remember?
no, its creepy, i noticed it too. to listen to the news, you’d think death has completely ceased in iraq..
November 1st, 2007 at 3:59 am> The top staff of thinkprogress.org is full of anti-white rabbied arabs.
how pathethic, you’re cowboy hero Betrayus is photographed in the company of a convicted embezzler who fed us false info to justify the invasion and that’s the best you trolls can do?
come on bigfoot? Micheal? what are your feelings about us cozying up to chalabi? let me guess… as long as he tells you what you want to hear, right?
Will Betrayus have a photo-op with Curveball soon?
In truth, Betrayus and Chalabi make a good pair, because both of them grease palms with lots and lots of american taxpayer money to get thier respective jobs done. At least we are buying more insurgents/terrorists with our millions these days. I read in newsweek we got a whopping 25 sunni chieftans for a mere 5 million dollars.. certainly a bargain when we had to drop 75 million just to buy one off previously.
But Micheal Bigfoot and Exley dont mind that their tax dollars are going to bribe terrorists not to attack us. As long as those terrorists swear to us they dont own “Al-Queda club” cards, its ok to bribe them not to attack us. In fact, not only is it ok, but its a better use of our money than taking care of sick american children is.
>who endured mass firings by the racist New Orleans D.A. —
oh god… spoor spelling and obtuse allusions to negroes in New Orleans? scooter the babbling syntatically challenged pcp addict reared his ugly head again.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:10 amAmazing! Where is the MSM?
November 1st, 2007 at 10:10 amNo one in the msm is covering this. I have written MSNBC and CNN. Why isn’t anyone interested in this blatant betrayal of the military.
November 1st, 2007 at 5:50 pm