The Man Who Pushed America to War.: Ahmad Chalabi

[bushmeister0]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88251909

Investigative journalist Aram Roston on NPR's Fresh Air today on our good buddy Ahmad Chalabi and how he suckered us into invading Iraq. A lot of the people he mentions, like Francis Brooke, are directly linked to John McCain, who seems to have spent most of his career trying to get us into Iraq.

See my previous post, here, on that:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[snappyturtle]

1. K&R Thanks for reminding us! We should NEVER forget. n/t

[Arctic Dave]

2. To say that AC suckered the US

is little overblown. It would closer to say that he was a useful idiot for shrub and assocs. You have to remember that he was funded by the US to go dig up any lame ass story, no matter how debunked it was, so shrub and assoc. could go in Iraq guns ablazen'.

[elehhhhna]

7. yep. what you said.

[ikojo]

3. What about the journalist who acted as

Chalabi's transcriptionist...Judith Miller?

Let us also not forget Katie "Navy Seals Rock" Couric and the cast of whores on the corporate media.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, Judith Miller ... THEY pushed us into war.

Chalabi was a tool they used to get it done.

They knew the truth; they were happy to repeat the lie.

[indepat]

8. junior, Cheney, Rummy, Condisleaza, Powell, Wolfowitz, Judith and their ilk

[PoliticalAmazon]

5. Michael Ledeen

Chalabi is just a tool.

IMO, Neocon, plagarist and CIA hanger-on Michael Ledeen is the one who has relentlessly pushed for us to invade Middle Eastern countries. He even brought in his old pal Manucher Ghorbanifar to aid in his machinations.

He was charged and tried in Italy for running a fascist insurgent training camp in Italy....just one of his other gigs.

[bushmeister0]

6. Don't underestimate Chalabi

It's true what everyone says about all the others, but Chalabi was the main factor. When the CIA had finally had it with him he was able to move on to the State Department via a number of friends in Congress, including most importantly John McCain. The neocons and the flaks in the media were his useful idiots.

It's too simplistic to say Chalabi was just a foil for the larger conspiracy.

[Ilsa]

9. I've been waiting to hear that he's been

"accidentally" blown apart by our troops so he can't say anything else about his dealing with Bushwipe and Cheney.

[bushmeister0]

10. I don't think that's going to happen

I seem to vaguely remember that in the early days of the invasion, Chalabi set up shop with his American supplied personal militia --the ones who pulled the statue of Saddam down (dressed in their civies to look like happy Iraqis for the media) -- in one of the Iraqi government ministries that kept all the secrets on our dealings with Saddam. Apparently, he's got tons of documents that the US doesn't want to see the light of day. That's why even after Rummy & Co. were done with him, he was still recieving millions of dollars from the US.

He's not stupid. If the US were to kill him, there's probably some mechanism wherein all this stuff suddenly comes out.

[Ilsa]

11. I htought about that, and yes, there is a high

chance that would happen. You are correct in assuming there probably won't be any orders to blow him away.

[Arctic Dave]

12. AC was a simple $2 whore.

When one group no longer needed him for their gains. They simply pimped him out to the next group. The only thing that keeps him going is he knows how to work the system. He is the proverbial turd that won't sink.

[tuckessee]

13. Chalabi is a cut out.

Now way this clown suckered the entire US military/intelligence/political complex into invading Iraq.

[Art_from_Ark]

14. Gotta have some scapegoat

The "adults in charge" never accept any responsibility for their home-made catastrophes

[Supersedeas]

15. a small coderie of associates -- and a legacy of War to continue

[spanone]

16. i disagree. dick cheney pushed us to war....chalabi was his tool

[Rosemary2205]

17. BULLSHIT - We didn't need to be "SUCKERED"

Bushco used Chalabi as a tool, not the other way around.