US policy on Iraq Baathists risks upheaval: Chalabi

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2004/April/focusoniraq_April205.xml§ion=focusoniraq

BAGHDAD - A US policy shift that could allow former Baath Party officials to join a new Iraqi government was akin to putting back Nazis in charge of Germany, leading Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi said on Friday.


“This policy will create major problems in the transition to democracy, endanger any government put together by UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and cause it to fall after June 30,” Chalabi told Reuters.

“This is like allowing Nazis into the German government immediately after World War Two,” said Chalabi, who heads a council committee purging the administration of the upper ranks of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party.

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[BlueEyedSon]

1. Uh oh... "get back in line and shut up, Ahmad!"

[MSgt213]

2. Chalabi is trying to impede our marh backwards

[saigon68]

3. Being a Bush Criminal Puppet will be bad for his health.

He's going to need Blackwater Security protecting his sorry ass for some time to come.
I can't think of a more despicable human except Saddam, in this whole oily mess. Well maybe Chemical ALI.

[0007]

10. Does anyone indeed know how big Chalabi's army is that protects

his stinking lying ass? We do know that the U.S. pays this prick handsomely on a monthly basic to exist.

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[flamingpie2500]

5. Chalabi doesn't want to lose his job. I do however agree with the premise

of the article. This administration obviously is desperate to gain back control and have to stoop to this kind of dangerous tactics to do it. Might as well bring Saddam back in. (sarcastically)

[TexasProgresive]

6. Negreponte will rehabilitate

and reconstitute former baathist into death squads to enforce policy. The democracy in Iraq will follow the model of democracy as sponsered by repug administrations in Latin America. They don't belief in real democracy not evey for us but in a sham that looks like the real thing.

[BeyondGeography]

7. Welcome to CheneyCo, Ahmad

Your washrooom keys have been taken away from you because your way was making the Boss look bad.

But, hey, thanks for all those inspiring pre-war meetings where you convinced us we'd be greeted like liberators. We couldn't have done it without you.

[PATRICK]

8. Quid pro quo?

Sharon has been very nervous lately, besides his own political problems, that the Bush "agenda" so in synch with his own- is changing or ominously slowing down. A keystone of that at least is the destruction of the Baath party wherever it is. His trip to see Bush may have been to make deals based on this perhaps.

We will put Baaths back into Iraq, but we will give you the seal of approval on your basic claims to Palestine and settlements as a fait accompli. We need to play off the Iraqis in any crazy way to temporarily calm things down or we both lose it all in November.

After the dance of deals and portrayals accomplishes its main purpose- to quiet the news front so bush can squeak back in November, onward we will go to finish off the grand plan.

Just a possible theory, but probably there is much more or much less behind the boldfaced backpedaling going on.

[w13rd0]

9. Does Chalabi have enough relatives and cronies...

...to fill all the posts?

[saigon68]

11. His nephew is the Chief Prosecutor of Saddam

Saddam is a dead man walking.

[oblivious]

12. You gotta read Juan Cole yesterday on Chalabi and Perle

If Chalabi says it's wrong, it's probably right.

http://www.juancole.com/

Scroll about halfway down:

Thursday, April 22, 2004

Perle at the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

<cut> It is deeply shameful that Perle is still pushing Chalabi, and may well succeed in installing him...

<cut>...The US military handed over to Chalabi, a private citizen, the Baath intelligence files that showed who had been taking money from Saddam, giving Chalabi the ability to blackmail large numbers of Iraqi and regional actors. It was Chalabi who insisted that the Iraqi army be disbanded, and Perle almost certainly was an intermediary for that stupid decision. It was Chalabi who insisted on blacklisting virtually all Baath Party members, even if they had been guilty of no crimes, effectively marginalizing all the Sunni Iraqi technocrats who could compete with him for power. It was Chalabi who finagled his way onto the Interim Governing Council even though he has no grassroots support (only 0.2 percent of Iraqis say they trust him)...

[newyawker99]

14. Hi oblivious!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[wryter2000]

13. Chalabi?

I'm supposed to find him credible?