Chalabi in Iraq's Seat as UN Session Opens

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030923/wl_nm/iraq_un_seat_dc&cid=574&ncid=1473

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The head of Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council was in Iraq's seat Tuesday as the U.N. General Assembly opened its annual high-level meeting of kings, presidents and other top leaders.

In the seat set aside for Iraq in the 191-nation assembly was Ahmad Chalabi, the holder of the Iraqi council's rotating presidency. Seated next to him was fellow council member Adnan Pachachi.

Chalabi is scheduled to address the high-level assembly session next week.

The delegation also includes Hoshyar Zebari, the council-appointed Iraqi foreign minister.

more...photo of the weasal at the link too

[shirlden]

1. Chalabi

Is Iraq's version of Bush. He is an awol, lying, pretender. The Iragi's don't want him. If he had to stand for an honest vote, he would be thrown out of the country.

:kick:

[leetrisck]

3. Agreed - he's one of the reasons

we invaded Iraq - swinging door between him, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc.

[Snellius]

4. Makes one wonder if Chalabi isn't using Bush?

Chalabi has been purposefully misleading the Bush administration to intervene in Iraq and may now, in part, be involved in the unrest and intrique to get them out.

[CaptainClark23]

5. Might have something there...

Chalabi is an old Chicago neo-con schoolmate of Wolfowitz and Perle, and, IMO, has been holding up his end of a well-formulated neo-con directive.

Given the neo-cons' need to distance from the sinking bush, and fast, Chalabi working to get the bush admin out of Iraq would be a good move. It might raise his stock in Iraq, enabling him to remain in a position of authority there, which would be to the neo-con advantage regardless of the outcome in '04.

[lindashaw]

19. I think he always has, he's probably the one who told Cheney...

that the Iraqis would put flowers in their gun barrels, etc...

[leesa]

21. Can't imagine Chalabi would survive there without US protection

He is a traitor to Iraq.

[Ashcroft Kutcher]

2. I liked when Bush spoke

highly of "Iraq's Governing Council". But didn'y mention the almost constant attempts on their lives.

[underpants]

6. Campaigning to make Chalabit the first Iraqi President

Not very subtle and may probably backfire on W and Chalabi.

[Paschall]

7. With Negroponte, Shrub, and Powell

That makes four criminal reps to the US.

[sistersofmercy]

8. I can't bear the sight of the snake chalabi, every time the camera

panned to him, I cursed, flipped him the bird.

[Sideways]

9. Snarfing When Turd Brain Said The Iraqi Council Was Democratic And Free

Explain to me then Mister Pretzeldunce why this very same council is behind the expulsion of Arab TV crews in Iraq?

Democratic and free my ass. Lambchop had more control over his voice then the Iraqis do.

Fuckwittage redux!

[thebigidea]

11. my goodness, Mary - you saying that Chalabi ISN'T a friend of freedom?

he's so trustworthy, so democratic... why, he evens smells like the American Enterprise Institute and has been in the same room as Richard Perle hundreds of times. You think that amount of high wattage love-of-freedom doesn't rub off?

I'm incredibly dissapointed in you, here we are trying to create a prosperous, free Iraq.... and you ridicule the Almighty Council.

This is how it starts. Next you'll be grumbling about lack of power, sewage in the streets, checkpoints, raids, and M-16s pointed at children.

Some people just HATE FREEDOM.

[Sideways]

14. Room 101 For Me

Yes I Hate Freedom. How the fuck did you know?

Winston oh Winston can you hear me?

[thebigidea]

17. make sure you have your anti-sex league sash and matching armband on

FREEDOMHATER!

I'll fedex some flags.



if that doesn't help, try staring at this for a few minutes:

[spanone]

20. Mary great post

[Minstrel Boy]

13. Good thing I work at home. When I saw him,

I screamed "FUCK YOU, CHALABI! GODDAMN FUCKING LYING SHIT! YOU NEED TO BE IN FUCKING PRISON!"

I suppose I should have felt better, but afterwards I still felt lousy. Because the asshole was still there.

[AntiCoup2K4]

15. I'm sure the Jordanian ambassador reminded him

Or I sure as Hell would have if I were him. Actually, if I was Jordanian and ran into Chalabi, I'd drag his ass home, and make him stand trial :evilgrin:

[leetrisck]

10. Chalabi is also wanted in Jordan

for bank embezzlement. Left that country in the trunk of a car, never to return. Jordan would still like to prosecute but not much chance of that. Chalabi's a rel winner.

[peterh]

12. I believe history will record…

Chalabi to be just another despot, on a long list, to be installed by the US over the years. I mean, how obvious can it be, when a head of state can’t even go into a neighboring country (Jordan) because of a prior conviction….but, that’s our fucking power brokers. What a black eye on us.

[tabasco]

16. Hell he can't even go to Iraq

Let's see President Chalabi on the streets in Iraq. I'm sure he stays in US-guarded compounds every minute he is in Iraq.

[legin]

18. doing a Wohlstetter Chalabi google

I found this bit talking about Richard Perle, but immediatly thought about Ann Coulter:

"He makes his influence felt through frequent television appearances, through his network of allies in the bureaucracy, and through his strategy of staking out an extreme position and trying to make the ground shift in his direction—which it often has.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16378
(seems like a good article)

Just found this little gem:
"Back in Washington, where he spent a great deal of time, Chalabi impressed various members of Congress, among them John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, and was the moving force behind the passage in 1998 of the Iraq Liberation Act, which called for the overthrow of the Saddam regime and directed that the State Department grant $97 million to the INC. But before long the department, suspicious that the organization had misallocated funds, ordered an audit, announced "accounting irregularities," and held up further contributions—to the everlasting fury of Perle and other neocons. When the Bush administration came in, the Pentagon began funding the INC."