Whats Chalabi doing in Washington? Lining up a coup.

[Vanje]

Apparently lining up a coup

http://www.iimcr.org/blog/index.cfm

Excerpt:
Aides to Iraq’s current vice-president Adel Adbul Mahdi cannot believe that the Bush administration would overlook the will of the Iraqi people and stuff a fellow like Chalabi down the throats of Iraq’s voters. They are so worried about Chalabi that they say privately they have no doubt that he might order Mahdi’s assassination if he could get away with it, even though Mahdi is well-protected twenty-four hours a day by U.S. Special Forces.
(snip)

“Mahdi’s still thinks the United States supervises democratic elections abroad,” laughs a well-placed member of the U.S. intelligence community. “We have too much at stake to leave leadership decisions to the will of the Iraqi people.”

[Jim Sagle]

1. Yeah, that's a real knee-slapper.

[catmother]

2. my husband and i were out having lunch talking-arguing about

politics and he said "they never should have listened to that chalabi guy" i then asked my husband if he knew how much the government was paying him for information. he was quite shocked when i told him it was $325,000 a month. for that kind of money he made up a lot of information. he's not to be trusted.

[spindrifter]

3. What? Where does the $325K

come from? What is it for? I can't believe the guy was allowed into the country. After all, they turned back Cat Stephens.

[acmejack]

9. From the generous taxpayers of the USA

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0315,fahim,43217,1.html

[spindrifter]

12. Ah--in the early '90's

thru the CIA. Thanks. I saw what sickened me in the Voice article: looks like he doesn't need any chump or chimp change now.

[catmother]

10. it was on the news the other day. i think it was MSNBC. i guess

paid by bush, et al. allegedly it was paid to him for information re WMDs. isn't that just great when we have homeless people, hungry children, people without health care, etc.

[Roland99]

13. According to Congressional Record on June 2, 2004, U.S. gave INC $40mil !!

http://www.house.gov/delahunt/iraqwatch_6-2-04.htm

[catmother]

14. thank you to you and acmejack for the websites. when i'm home

i always have 2 tvs on -- usually tuned to MSNBC while i'm doing chores -- so sometimes i don't catch the whole thing. so thanks again for the sites.

[spindrifter]

16. Some great quotes

snip...

"This President, amongst the many mistakes that he has made, squandered almost $40 million in waste, fraud and abuse, taking the money from American taxpayers and giving it to this fellow that he told us was going to be the ``Spartacus of Iraq.'' We were told by the Vice President that we would be welcomed as liberators, with rose petals, and that this administration believed with Richard Pearl and DICK CHENEY and the whole group of them and Paul Wolfowitz, we have heard them described as the neo-cons. They are neo-cons, and they allowed Mr. Chalabi to con this administration out of $40 million, and we have not got a penny back."

snip...

" Now the administration, just to make sure people understand what happened here, Mr. Chalabi and his allies gave phony information about weapons of mass destruction. The neo-cons in the White House and the Defense Department bought it hook, line and sinker. They convinced the President, who apparently did not need much convincing, that we would just send Mr. Chalabi in there and he would be, as I said, the new Spartacus of Iraq, the De Gaulle of Iraq."

snip...

Mr. INSLEE. What is so disturbing about this, at least to me, is this is almost a pattern of this administration blowing Top Secret security information. They did it through Mr. Chalabi, although perhaps unintentionally. They did it blowing the cover of a CIA agent in order to punish Joe Wilson, the ambassador who blew the whistle on the falsehood that the President gave in his State of the Union speech. Is nothing sacred? Is nothing sacred in our security information? This administration needs to be held to account."

These are only a few of the gems. It's well worth checking out.

Thanks for the link!

[patrice]

4. Wait a minute, I'm getting Iraq and Ohio mixed up.

[Panda1]

5. "Chalabi has charisma"

Said by Andrea Koppel on MSNBC as she described how "fun" it is to cover Chalabi. "It's easy to get an interview with him", she said. She slid past the lies he told about WMDs.
He's a crook and a thug. A hitman.

[proud patriot]

6. Arrest That Man

chalibi needs to be arrested .

[pinto]

8. Second that.

[pinto]

7. He's actually a Minister of the Gov't, as strange as that is. It's about $

He's lining up "reconstruction money".....I've read a couple of mentions that he is playing himself off as a hedge to Iranian interests in Iraq, but I don't know how reliable that info is.

[Roland99]

11. Yeah, I posted that yesterday in GD:P

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2242945


He is even more arrogant than this administration!

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. It's a reunion of hard core criminals. Nice they're all in one tiny area.