McCain exhorted U.S. into an illegal war based on false intelligence from a suspected Iranian agent

[kpete]

In 2006, the majority of the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Chalabi's organization proffered "false information" in an attempt to "influence U.S. policy towards Iraq" before the Iraq war.

One of Chalabi's closest American associates was none other than Randy Scheunemann,

Scheunemann founded and lead the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which was itself a spin off of the Project for a New American Century. John McCain and Joe Lieberman were honorary CLI co-chairs. CLI lobbied aggressively for the invasion of Iraq.
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1458.html

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The following anecdote illustrates the kind of working relationship that Scheunemann and Chalabi enjoyed. In June of 1998, weapons inspector Scott Ritter met with Scheunemann about a discovery that suggested that Iraq might be developing chemical weapons. Scheunemann thought this was something Chalabi should know about. So, he had Ritter driven to Chalabi's Georgetown apartment for an impromptu dinner party and sleepover. (Seriously.)
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/20080317_dinner_with_ahmed/

McCain exhorted the U.S. into an illegal war based on false intelligence from a suspected Iranian agent. Now, five years later, he named one of the chief architects of this debacle, Randy Scheunemann, to shape his foreign policy. When McCain says there will be other wars. If he's elected there will be.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/05/ahmad_chalabi_d/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/27/mccain-warns-there-will_n_83459.html
more at:
http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/19/there-will-be-other-wars-mccain-scheunemann-and-chalabi/