Chalabi escapes again - WTF is he up to now?

[jannyk]

It's the last sentence that has me retching and heaving.....

from the International Herald Tribune:

>>BAGHDAD: Senior Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi escaped unharmed Saturday when insurgents shelled a village he was visiting northeast of Baghdad and later exchanged gunfire with his personal security detail, an aide said. The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of his own safety, said the gunfight lasted 15 minutes and that army soldiers joined Chalabi's security team to drive the assailants back.

Iraq's state television aired footage showing soldiers and Chalabi's security guards firing automatic weapons from behind a sand perm. The insurgents could not be seen, but Chalabi was shown earlier speaking to reporters as gunfire suddenly rang out in the background.

Chalabi, once a Pentagon favorite to lead Iraq after Saddam Hussein, appeared calm, finishing his answer to a reporter's question before being hustled away by a burly bodyguard. Chalabi is believed to have escaped at least two assassination attempts since 2003. He was visiting Diyala province to rally local clans against Sunni insurgents who have been active in the area in recent weeks.

"He now heads a committee to build public support for the ongoing U.S.-Iraqi security operation, reporting directly to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki."<<

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/19/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Chalabi.php

[Double T]

1. With Iraqi leadership like this, there will never be any peace........

and the USA will never be able to withdraw our troops. Looks like regime change is REQUIRED in washington, d.c. and Baghdad.

[vickitulsa]

2. Oh my, the man really did learn a lot from his Pentagon pals, didn't he?

He discovered he could emerge from the ashes of his own smoldering dungheap repeatedly as long as he remembered to lie long and persistently!

Wonder how he snookered (or tricked, or blackmailed) al Maliki into awarding him this latest gig? Or maybe they were old buds from long ago, and we just didn't know it?

First time it's really occurred to me in just these terms, but one of the most repugnant "legacies" of the Bu$h maladministration's misbegotten and poorly executed plan for unending war -- especially in the Middle East -- could be the way they have foisted the dirtiest of political playbooks (namely theirs) onto the Iraqi people. The series of bogus and/or puppet governments they've propped up in Afghanistan and Iraq have played their part in the 'Pukes wet dream of a faux democratic system modeled on their own, put in place by them and controlled (for a time) by the same puppet-masters that operate in "the homeland."

Lordy, I'm sick of that term, too -- "the homeland"! It's one of their framing tricks that smacks the most of Nazi-style propaganda tactics, and it has worked too well!

Problem for them is, the Iraqi puppet governors didn't take long to realize they were being given quite a bit of power in an invasion aftermath that left the country pretty much crippled and unmanageable by anyone, let alone these bungling, arrogant creeps bred and raised by PNACkers and their cohorts in crime.

So now the Iraqi people will have yet another burden impeding their return to a truly civilized state.

A British citizen I've known real well since 1998 used to travel to earthquake-prone countries in the ME region, including Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, to name a few of the 30 countries assisted by the British Civil Defence of which my friend was an active member. After it became clear that the pretzeldent and darth were determined to invade Iraq, I asked him which of the peoples in those countries he'd spent so much time in (during crisis situations, no less, so he got to know them in pretty intimate ways) did he like the best.

He replied without hesitation, "the Iraqis!" Told me they were intelligent and industrious -- and certainly deserved better than Saddam. But Rod was so appalled at what the neocons set out to do there he was furious. He predicted calamity for the Iraqis as a result -- as did many of us here in "the homeland."

And we've been proven correct, I'm sad to say.

Iraqis deserve better than Saddam all right ... but that "better" is NOT a series of "mini-me's" in the image of corrupt American politicians!

It's all so crushingly sad and regrettable, and surely the bungled Bu$hCo occupation operation is responsible for a great deal of the Iraqis' desperation, leading among other things to the bloodletting among the tribes and political/religious factions there.

Good work, George & Company!

[KharmaTrain]

3. Will Anyone Be Sad...

...when that bullet with his name on it finaly meets its mark???

So where's Chalabi's good friend Wolfie Blitzer? Or has anyone heard from Rummy latey?

[SoCalDem]

4. He'll turn up in a Bond movie eventually ...probably in an underground super-bunker

[acmavm]

5. There is NO WAY Chalabi will ever amount to anything in Iraq, they know

he sold them out to the bush** administration. In fact, I'm surprised he's survived this long.