Chalabi has got to be the greatest neo-con fuckup to date.

All I can say is Bush shoulda listened to Powell a little bit closer.

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God I love it when the stink finally comes out. Take a load of these new apples:

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Details Emerge on Stint by Chalabi Niece at 'NY Times' By E&P Staff Published: June 01, 2004 NEW YORK During the five months that Iraqi exile leader Ahmad Chalabi's niece, Sarah Khalil, worked for The New York Times in 2003, the reporter who hired her, Patrick Tyler, published nine pieces that mentioned her now-disgraced uncle, according to an article published today by The New Yorker. During this time, she also personally helped Chalabi get across the border from Kuwait into southern Iraq. The Times fired Khalil on May 20, 2003, when word of her employment reached New York. According to the article by Jane Mayer, "two months before the invasion began, the chief correspondent for the Times, Patrick E. Tyler, who was in charge of overseeing the paper's war coverage, hired Chalabi's niece, Sarah Khalil, to be the paper's office manager in Kuwait. Chalabi had long been a source for Tyler. Chalabi's daughter Tamara, who was in Kuwait at the time, told me that Khalil helped her father's efforts while she was working for the Times. "In early April 2003, Chalabi was stranded in the desert shortly after U.S. forces airlifted him and several hundred followers into southern Iraq, leaving them without adequate water, food, or transportation. Once again, the assistance of the U.S. military had backfired. Chalabi used a satellite phone to call Khalil for help. According to Tamara, Khalil commandeered money from I.N.C. funds and rounded up a convoy of S.U.V.s, which she herself led across the border into Iraq." Tyler told Mayer he didn't know about Khalil helping her uncle get into southern Iraq. He said that Khalil had a background in journalism, and that Chalabi hadn't been a factor in the war when he hired her -- something of a stretch, given that fellow reporter Judith Miller has identified him as the prime source for her biggest scoops. "We were covering a war, not Chalabi," Tyler told Mayer. When asked by Mayer about Khalil's rescue of Chalabi, William Schmidt, an associate managing editor of the Times, said, "The Times is not aware of any such story, or whether it happened. If so, it was out of bounds." http://www.editorandpublisher.com/e...t_id=1000522848

Ya just gotta love that "liberal" media, don't cha?

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talk about going out on a sour note.

I like the new guy over Chalabi anyway

Its interesting how people are branding "Chalabi" the neo-con choice though...

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Originally posted by Yoepus talk about going out on a sour note. I like the new guy over Chalabi anyway Its interesting how people are branding "Chalabi" the neo-con choice though...

Branding? Are you implying that Chalabi wasn't a neo-con favorite?

Am I gonna have to get Vesa out of the woodworks on this one?

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Originally posted by Yoepus Its interesting how people are branding "Chalabi" the neo-con choice though...

You mean the same way Wolfowits has been unfairly branded a neo-con

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Originally posted by igottaknow You mean the same way Wolfowits has been unfairly branded a neo-con

Wolfowitz is a neo-con.

Chalabi was more like a pet

He was a bad dog!

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Ejecting Chalabi was a good decision. Don't need the baggage when you're trying to be fair in all things concerned.

The CIA, or certain elements within the CIA, have seemingly declared war on the neocons.

My money is on the CIA.

Oh man, this is rich - Bush pulls a "Chalabi who?" during his press conference:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/rele...20040601-2.html

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Q: Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Chalabi is an Iraqi leader that's fallen out of favor within your administration. I'm wondering if you feel that he provided any false information, or are you particularly -- THE PRESIDENT: Chalabi? Q: Yes, with Chalabi. THE PRESIDENT: My meetings with him were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him. Mr. Brahimi made the decision on Chalabi, not the United States. Mr. Brahimi was the person that put together the group. And I haven't spoken to him or anybody on the ground as to why Chalabi wasn't taken. In terms of information -- Q: I guess I'm asking, do you feel like he misled your administration, in terms of what the expectations were going to be going into Iraq? THE PRESIDENT: I don't remember anybody walking into my office saying, Chalabi says this is the way it's going to be in Iraq.

Wasn't that Chalabi character sitting in the same box as the First Lady for Bush's State of the Union speech recently?

Must have been that assigned seating arrangement thing.

Way to wipe your hands clean there Dubya.

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I yearn to shout,
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