Our New Model Saddam, Rehabilitated Once Again, Prepares To Assume Power In Iraq
Now reasonable minds might disagree on the rationale for war in Iraq, but reasonable noses know immediately what a human turd smells like. The living benchmark is Ahmad Chalabi, who used trickery, lies, and fuck, maybe even voodoo to dupe the press and Bush Administration into the invasion. Not only did he use over 900 American lives and $125 billion (and counting) US taxpayer dollars for his coup, he collected a monthly salary from us that is close to what the President receives for an entire year! That got cut off when it turned out a member of his staff was an Iranian double agent. They also raided his office and stole some of his computers, but apparently he’s still working the walls in Baghdad as this article in today’s LATimes gleefully reports:
Chalabi Reinvents Himself as a Populist War lobbyist
By Alissa J. Rubin, Times Staff Writer
BAGHDAD — The U.S. has encountered many surprises in its efforts to forge a democratic government in Iraq, but few have been more unexpected than the transformation of Ahmad Chalabi from patrician exile to deft populist.
Chalabi is a survivor. Snubbed by the Bush administration neoconservatives who once embraced him, and excluded from the interim government, he is building a grass roots coalition of Shiite Muslim groups who lack a voice in the new Iraq.
At the same time, he's reaching out to Iraq's most prominent anti-American Shiite cleric, Muqtada Sadr, whose followers come mainly from Baghdad's urban underclass and the impoverished south of the country. Political analysts here believe that the new approach will eventually win support from a significant segment of Sadr's followers if Chalabi chooses to run for office — and, as expected, Sadr chooses to wield his power from the pulpit instead.
…and so on. Read the rest of the article if you have the stomach, but you probably remember Sadr as the guy who instigated a rebellion that cost dozens of American lives. Likewise, you probably remember guys like “Saddam Hussein” and “Osama bin Laden.” They got started in the terror business with your taxpayer subsidies too, fighting Iranians and Soviets respectively. If you wonder how we manage to get into these long-term policy nightmares, keep an eye an Ahmad Chalabi as he develops from uncomfy bedfellow into outright antagonist. It will be a living lesson in history.
Now that you’re in on the secret, there will be no surprises and I suppose that takes some of the fun out of it, but even if you look at the pictures on the seed packets it’s still a lot of fun to watch your garden grow! Enjoy!
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