Need a quick hand beating down a freeper...

[tekriter]

He's telling me that Bushie never really had anything to do with Chalabi, media made that up, etc - and I've been out of town a bit lately but I know we've had pictures here on DU showing Chalabi as an honored guest at Bushie's state of the union speech. Can anybody give me a link so I can clam this putz up for a while?

Man, I hate working around dittoheads. If I didn't have 26 years in this place already I'd start working at a Dairy Queen or something.

[GOPisEvil]

1. From the White House itself:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040120%2D5.html

Dr. Adnan Pachachi President, Iraqi Governing Council Dr. Pachaci is President of the Iraqi Governing Council and President of the Iraqi Independent Grouping. He is former Foreign Minister and Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

Minister Hoshyar Zebari Iraqi Interim Foreign Minister Mr. Zebari is a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), and was the KDP's head of International Affairs before being named Iraqi Interim Foreign Minister on September 1, 2003. He holds a Masters Degree in Sociology from Essex University.

Dr. Ahmed Chalabi Iraqi Governing Council Member Dr. Chalabi is founder and head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC). He is also a mathematics professor and a businessman.

Edit - bold added by me.

[Loonman]

2. Ka-pow

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5040831/

[trotsky]

4. That's the one I just found too.

Title: The Rise and Fall of Chalabi: Bush's Mr. Wrong

[tandot]

3. Bush surrounds himself with people who STILL adore Chalabi

Tweety said something about it yesterday on Hardball. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and all those other incompetent a**holes would probably have kept him on the payroll if the media wouldn't have caught wind of it.

As long as Bush says that they are all doing a superb job he is just as guilty.

[Kahuna]

5. Here you go. Catwoman posted this last night...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1709571

From Atrios:

Flopped

Reader r writes in:



George W. Bush last Feburary, on Meet The Press (emphasis added):


Russert: If the Iraqis choose, however, an Islamic extremist regime, would you accept that, and would that be better for the United States than Saddam Hussein?

President Bush: They're not going to develop that. And the reason I can say that is because I'm very aware of this basic law they're writing. They're not going to develop that because right here in the Oval Office I sat down with Mr. Pachachi and Chalabi and al-Hakim, people from different parts of the country that have made the firm commitment, that they want a constitution eventually written that recognizes minority rights and freedom of religion.




George W. Bush yesterday , Rose Garden press conference:


Q Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Chalabi is an Iraqi leader that's fallen out of favor within your administration. I'm wondering if you feel that he provided any false information, or are you particularly --

THE PRESIDENT: Chalabi?

Q Yes, with Chalabi.

THE PRESIDENT: My meetings with him were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him.
...

Q I guess I'm asking, do you feel like he misled your administration, in terms of what the expectations were going to be going into Iraq?

THE PRESIDENT: I don't remember anybody walking into my office saying, Chalabi says this is the way it's going to be in Iraq.

http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. I know the feeling.

I'm a tech writer too. In telecom. In Dallas.

Need I say more?

FSC

[tekriter]

10. You must hate America!!

Don't we all??

[Iceburg]

7. Bush says in Meet The Press ramble " I sat down with ..and Chalabi ..."

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=28200
snip
Russert: If the Iraqis choose, however, an Islamic extremist regime, would you accept that, and would that be better for the United States than Saddam Hussein?

President Bush: They're not going to develop that. And the reason I can say that is because I'm very aware of this basic law they're writing. They're not going to develop that because right here in the Oval Office I sat down with Mr. Pachachi and Chalabi and al Hakim, people from different parts of the country that have made the firm commitment, that they want a constitution eventually written that recognizes minority rights and freedom of religion.

/snip

June 1, 2004
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: "Chalabi? My meetings with him were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the state of the union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him. "
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I guess Bush forgot that he sat down with Chalibi (and said that he sat down with Chalibi in the oval office and worked out a few details regarding Iraq) ... can only remember standing in a line with the feller.

[lpbk2713]

8. It probably will be an exercise if futility.

They are programmed to deny any truths that are remotely negative pertaining to Shit-for-Brains. A mindset that is constantly reinforced by Rush Pimplebutt.

[AP]

9. Why are people so proud of the idea that Bush has no idea what's going on?