Bush backer Chalabi now cozying up to Obama

[sabra]

Source: Wash Times

BAGHDAD | Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi politician who successfully promoted the war that Barack Obama opposed as a presidential candidate, has sent the U.S. leader "sincere congratulations" for winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

Mr. Chalabi, who cultivated neoconservatives and the George W. Bush administration when he was an exile drumming up support against Saddam Hussein, told The Washington Times that he is a big fan of Mr. Obama.

"The few months of your administration have produced a sea-change in the perception of the United States of America in the world and specifically among Muslims," he wrote to Mr. Obama in a recent letter that he shared with The Times. "Your historic speech in Cairo has become a beacon of hope for the coming era."

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"Obama has the right attitude in Iraq," Mr. Chalabi said in an interview at one of his family's gated estates in northern Baghdad. "He wants to transform Iraq's relationship in the United States beyond security and intelligence to a meaningful alliance between two countries which see great mutual benefit in cooperation in terms of oil, the economy, development, culture, education and democracy."

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"We never hid our relationship with the Iranians," he said. He added that Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was "very about us having this office in Tehran" before the war. But he said the State Department was paying for the office. "They knew they were funding it. We got an exemption; it was not a secret."

Read more: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/04/war-proponent-chalabi-applauds-obamas-nobel-muslim/

[gimama]

1. I've wondered what happened to this creep

thanks for the info/post ..sure am tired of the bad guys getting away with murder~literally!~ & livin' large :(

[msongs]

2. Chalabi likes conservatives. oh well nt

[newscott]

3. I got 2 words for Chalabi

And the second one is "you".

[pinniped]

4. So, was this Chalabi dude a double-double secret agent or what?

?

[DissedByBush]

7. Burn notice

It isn't like in the TV show. It's when the CIA or other intelligence agency says it has completely lost confidence in an intelligence source and warns all other agencies not to use him anymore.

Chalabi is one of the few people publicly known to have a burn notice on him.

[Me.]

5. UGH

[MilesColtrane]

6. Let me get this straight.

A newspaper reporter gets a one on one with Chalabi and he doesn't ask him if he's on the CIA payroll, or if he was in the group of Iraqis "spontaneously" celebrating the invasion in 2003, or any other of a dozen questions.

Instead he asks him, how he likes Obama.

Then he fills out the rest of the article with Chalabi's resume.

Is he finally going to get his wish to be the prime minister? I guess the Bilderbergers gave him their blessing in '06.

[EFerrari]

11. When I spot this kind of thing, I make note of the reporter's name.

Just for the hell of it. :)

[IndianaGreen]

8. Why shouldn't the neocon Chalabi be pals with Obama?

I expect Judith Miller to come out into the open and endorse Obama's war.

[janx]

9. The Washington Times, huh? n/t

[dipsydoodle]

10. Tosser

.

[philly_bob]

12. UNREC Rightwing media trying to anger progressives. /nt