Ahmad Chalabi, former Iraqi exile (and dictator-in-waiting), is the man senior officials in the Bush administration have accused, on the record, of deliberately fooling the Pentagon, CIA and other international intelligence agencies with bogus information about stockpiles of WMDs that led to the invasion of Iraq.
In fact, once the Americans realised that there were no WMDs and that Chalabi had merely gotten them to do his dirty work of toppling Saddam Hussein, they resented him so much that they tried to have Chalabi and his son arrested based on bogus information of their own about a U.S. dollar counterfeiting operation. But not only did they fail in this misadventure; the Americans actually prevailed upon King Abdullah of Jordan to squash a legitimate arrest warrant against Chalabi that was issued pursuant to his conviction in absentia for embezzling over 300 million (real U.S. dollars) from a Jordanian bank.
Now – as Deputy Prime Minister and head of the oil ministry – Chalabi is easily the most powerful man in Iraq and destined to become its next maximum leader. And, the gullible Americans seem all too willing to “get fooled again.” Why else would this “pariah” be welcomed back to Washington for “friendly consultations” with the very officials who hold him responsible for over 2100 American lives…?
Only in America folks!
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Anonymous says
On any given day you’d see the hypocrisy for what it is.
Imagine telling your friend that he embezzeled money and then have the temarity to invite him back into your house? What shit is this? Don’t think that the world isn’t watching. Not that the Bush administration gives a shit.
Noel
Anonymous says
“Only in America folks” is right. The fact of the matter is that your country has a sordid history of creating monsters like Saddam Hussein and then acting all surprise and self-righteous when they start behaving like monsters.