Comments on: Chalabi A ‘Key Figure’ In Iranian Efforts To Scuttle U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement

By: Chocolate Jesus

Chocolate Jesus — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:07:51 +0000

chalabi, a master con man and briber, convicted fraudster, and the guy who was integral to giving us the bad intelligence we wanted to hear to justify invading iraq. why is general betrayus palling around with this guy?

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/petraeuschalabi43.gif

to learn the art of “paying off people to do what you want”

general betrayus is paying iraqis to stop shooting at our soldiers, hes more like a mobster’s accountant than a soldier.

By: impeachcheneythenbush

impeachcheneythenbush — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:18:41 +0000

# 18 – A Patriot Acting Says

And you would be correct in saying Pappy Bush was involved with the INC – we always seem to create our own monsters! Notice the CIA involvement, who later renounced Chalibi.

INC was set up following the Persian Gulf War to coordinate the activities of various anti-Saddam groups. Then President George Bush signed a presidential finding directing the Central Intelligence Agency to create conditions for Hussein’s removal in May 1991. Coordinating anti-Saddam groups was an important element of this strategy. The name INC was reportedly coined by public relations expert John Rendon (of the Rendon Group agency) and the group was funded by the United States. The group received millions in covert funding in the 1990s, and then about $8 million a year in overt funding after the passage of the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998. The deep involvement of the American CIA in the creation and early funding of the INC in its early years led many to consider the group a “creation of the CIA” rather than an organ of genuine Iraqi opposition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_National_Congress

By: kdoug

kdoug — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:23:58 +0000

He’s a lovely looking gentleman … someone you’d leave your kids with …

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:09:40 +0000

HOW DARE IRAQ PUT THEIR INTERESTS BEFORE THOSE OF THEIR COLONIAL MASTERS !!!!!!!!

USA!
USA!
USA!

By: Jackie

Jackie — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:53:35 +0000

Chalabi is the smartest of them all. He received 300,000 a month to help set up the lie about Iraq. He got caught and moved on to Iran with his fellow Shia members the Supreme Leader and President of Iran. Look Chalabia played the US players for the idiots they are. Listening to the White House who doesn’t know the Shia from the Sunni or the Kurdes it was so easy. Lesson here is it’s easy to fool dumb people, much harder to fool educated ones.

By: Keltoi

Keltoi — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:13:44 +0000

barfly Says:

Boy, that picture. He looks like a diseased rat.

No…I found myself looking into those eyes and thinking Great White Shark. No soul, but deadly all the same.

And I agree completely with Nevar and Tokin Librul at 14 and 15. I think that almost any American politician you would care to name is punching above his weight when playing Machiavelli with this guy. I think he could pick Nixon’s pocket.

By: QUALAR

QUALAR — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:13:31 +0000

Nice job, Cheney. Your buddy Ahmed needs a hug.

By: Leftside Annie

Leftside Annie — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:03:14 +0000

Et tu, Ahmed???

By: po

po — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:55:13 +0000

Such dupes, W and his unitary executive was. Such dupes indeed. Rush to war on the lies of a double agent. How many times in history have great nations succumbed to such nonsense. And the GOP thinks it knows foreign policy and war. What a joke.

By: barfly

barfly — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:54:17 +0000

Boy, that picture. He looks like a diseased rat.

By: A Patriot Acting

A Patriot Acting — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:54:05 +0000

Ahmed Chalabi, the White House’s inside guy. He was involved in plans in 1992 to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime through his group The Iraqi National Congress (backed by Pappy Bush no doubt). In his zeal to overthrow Saddam he worked with the current Administration’s propaganda effort in Iraq fomenting such lies and forgeries as the since dispelled Iraq-al queda connection, mobile biological labs and the infamous yellowcake uranium forgery. He has had business relationships with neocons in the Pentagon and boasts about his close relationship to Paul Wolfowitz. For several years up until late 2003 the State Dept gave 33 million dollars to Chalabi’s INC. This snake oil salesman has been the main source of false info fed to the CIA and cherry picked by the WH to justify their war for oil. Removing Saddam helps Chalabi’s political desires and clears the way for Chalabi (as oil minister) to pay back his Washington allies and their oil hungry corporate friends. Surprise, surprise! Chalabi supported John McCain back as far as his 2000 election attempt hoping the future president would be a valuable tool to help him achieve his personal goals. John McCain is the one who introduced Chalabi to the Washington neocon elite and McCain lobbied the WH to give Chalabi’s INC big bucks:
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=23c3a0ff-9d55-4d28-a94e-0b0e09e26505

This self-serving agent has been working Iraq, Iran and the US for years towards his own goal of power. If the media is soooooooo liberal, why haven’t any of them raised the issue of McCain’s long relationship with a charlatan/spy whose intentional misinformation gave George Bush all the grist he needed to pull off his Iraqi Oil War?

By: barfly

barfly — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:49:17 +0000

The security of forces agreement will be another Bush-prepared offal-falafel, for the incoming president.

Chalabi should get Gitmo’ed in early February; do every one a favor. I wouldn’t mind if he were tortured. Not one bit.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:48:41 +0000

Why are McIIIrd and his campaign staff pallin around with Iranian agents?

By: tokin librul

tokin librul — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:47:24 +0000

I’ve always said that if he avoided assassination, Chalabi would be the next Iraqi strongman…

I stick by the prediction…

By: Nevar

Nevar — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:46:36 +0000

Chalabi wants nothing less than to be the next ruler of Iraq.
This is what his goal has always been. He has always had ties to Iran, and Cheney and his stooges were to blinded by their own greed for oil, money and power to see that.

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:46:09 +0000

No doubt the msm will not cover this.

By: Badmoodman

Badmoodman — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:45:52 +0000

Chalabi A ‘Key Figure’ In Iranian Efforts To Scuttle U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement

– - Poll: Nearly three-quarters of Texans erroneously believe that Chalabi is a friend of the U.S

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:44:12 +0000

I presume “Big Media” will ignore this story and McCain’s associates’ ties with Chalabi/Ahmadinajad?

By: raynman

raynman — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:42:02 +0000

The lesson to be learned from all this?

If you turn your back on a slimeball like Chalabi, odds are he’s going to find a way to stab you….

By: 666lattes

666lattes — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:40:34 +0000

Hmmm… he provided the “evidence” to Bush that ended up giving Iran their long sought victory over Iraq without them having to use any Iranian troops, was found to be sharing important US military information with Iran and only now they’re starting to think he may be working with the Iranians? Or, have they yet to figure this out?

I can’t tell. What I do know is that this guy had a seat next to Laura Bush at the State of the Union… amazing… Obama’s “palling around” with whom, exactly?