Guess who's back?
Imagine how difficult it is to write Bush administration satire when real life is this absurd.
Ahmad Chalabi, the controversial, ubiquitous Iraqi politician and one-time Bush administration favorite, has re-emerged as a central figure in the latest U.S. strategy for Iraq.
His latest job: To press Iraq's central government to use early security gains from the surge to deliver better electricity, health, education and local security services to Baghdad neighborhoods. That's the next phase of the surge plan. Until now, the U.S. military, various militias, insurgents and some U.S. backed groups have provided those services without great success.
That the U.S. and Iraqi officials are again turning to Chalabi, this time to restore life to Baghdad neighborhoods, speaks to his resiliency in this nascent government.
Well, it certainly speaks to something, but "resiliency" isn't the word that comes to mind.
Iraq's own Newt Gingrich
Jeebus.
Fool me once, shame on, shame you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again. Until I hire you a third time.
Next up: the return of Curveball!
Bush family bag man.
"To press Iraq’s central government"
For oill and OJ ?
Oh no, not him again! What's the matter with this guy? what is this insatiable craving for attention? How big of an ego could any one moron have? (um...scratch that last one...how could I forget the clown in the WH). I say "persona non grata", to you, Chalabi (and Bush).
Is this the infamous "curve ball" who gave us all that intelligence we wanted to hear to start the war?? Seems like it.
I swear that guy sold me a car in '88.
Well, unless he stays hunkered down in the Green Zone (where he will do as much good as tits on a bull) he's very likely to get his head blown off by a fellow countryman (or woman). He doesn't have much of a fan club among Iraqis these days.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/53324
Heckuva job, Ahmed. (:>
How ironic. I just finished watching "No End in Sight" about the quagmire in Iraq. And what is the first thing I see when I switch back? Chalabi.
It takes a lot of careful planning to make that many bad choices. The other thing I got out of the movie was that nearly every major decision before the occupation and since has been made by Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowiz and Bremer with just a few personal advisors. They accepted no input or dissent from anyone. So you can bet this decision on Chalabi was made by the same people.
Tom (not Tom) @ 8:
He's been managing a Jack in the Box in west LA for the last couple of years.
"Curveball"? More like _screwball_. It takes a thief to hire a thief, I guess.
What's the difference between Saddam Hussein and Ahmad Jalopy? 20 years.
Yes, and it's Petraeus singing Chalabi's praises.
Any remaining wonder why "Betrayus" fits him to a T?
New and improved!
Is this lying, felonious scumbag back on the payroll?
Busholini et al MUST BE PURGED from what's left of our government.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, GOD DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in the normal world we onc eknew, the only thing to say to this story is unf---ing believable. but sadly in our world created by this administration it is all too believable.
Chalabi is the ultimate con man. Only a fool would go back to the same con man that has already conned you many times in the past.
Betrayus singing Chalabi's praises goes to show what a political hack Betrayus is -- and how fitting his moniker is!
Isn't this the dick who convinced Bushco to invade Iraq!
While they're at it, might as well go ahead and reanimate Saddam.
I saw a news clip of Petreus the other day getting a field briefing and guess who is sitting next to him. Chalabi!
This guy is more persistent than Nixon. Cheny is going to get his man in place no matter what.
That Chalabi is Curveball is the worst kept secret in Washington.
Lunacy... that's the word that comes to mind.
And Chimpy claims he himself is still relevant ?
You haven't made enough shitty decisions and glaring errors that it's time to bring back some character who is one of the biggest skid mark stains(among many) of your presidency , and entrust him to use early security gains from the surge to deliver better electricity, health, education and local security services to Baghdad neighborhoods ; of which the U.S. military, various militias, insurgents and some U.S. backed groups have failed to deliver ?
What are you gonna' do next , you retarded , unintelligible simian ?
Send out some of your advisers to look for wallets ?
Holy shit , what an imbecile...........
I hope they make him preznit of Iraq before our preznit leaves.
When we pull out of Iraq his hours are numbered.
It's stories like this one that have me doubting my own sanity. Surely this can't be real!!!
jeez...this guy's harder to kill than a cockroach......changes colour and shape faster than any invertebrate (outside of Congress).
Spock @ 19:
No, he just gave him more justifications. He's part of Bush's Brain Trust.
Karl Rove is gone you know... Or is he?
Wait wait wait wait. Who told you Chalabi was a hack job? Isn't it a fair observation that Chalabi was used as a scape goat when wmd didn't turn up in Iraq? just putting two and two together..
This is like the re-emergence of a disease that was thought to be cured.
There's a hellava race going on to be the worlds most incompetent leader. Bush and Malaki are in a deadheat right now.
Tim @ 29:
That is a good one line summary of the Cliff Notes of the Epic Novel....
Read up on him.
Rome is in trouble when Treason becomes a joke. Humor is necessary to relieve the stress, but we aren't even dealing with the stress of speaking truthfully about Treason.
I don't understand. What is it with this guy's resume that says he should be considered over and over again for this sort of thing?
Oh wait, I know:
Kiss Bush's ass and do everything his administration demands, no matter how stupid or evil.
Be capable of nothing less that catastrophic failure in every task attempted.
Have a receipt noting the exact moment you sold your soul to Satan.
Better chalabi than holding any of the war profiteers accountable for actually rebuilding Iraq! This is just to distract from the pending and planned Iran attack and the Califiasco and the Mukasey mistake and the mississippi judge mishap(vote) and ....
and of course chalabi is working with BetrayUS.
OT: But I just read this little quote from a Reid aide answering Bush's attack on the Dems in congress, pretty funny:
Bush criticized Congress for not being able to send "a single appropriations bill" to him.
"They haven't seen a bill they could not solve without shoving a tax hike into it," he said.
Democrats quickly fired back. Jim Manley, senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, said, "Taking advice from President Bush about fiscal responsibility and getting things done for the American people is like taking hunting lessons from Dick Cheney. Neither is a very good idea."
Bit NOLA @ 13:
BETRAYUS is exactly right. Deal with it. I still can't believe MoveOn backed down, apologized, and even paid the NY Times the extra amount of money they saved on the deal. I won't be contributing to that cause. And I guess it just goes to show you that liberals are too nice by nature. Easily made to feel bad. Easily shamed into concurrence.
I guess Chalabi is still a fugitive.
None of these Scumbags ever go away, they all just creep back into the shadows and wait for their chance to assume a leadership role when BushCo and the Neocons take over the world. I hear Rumsfeld still has an office at the Pentagon despite being forced to leave in disgrace. We need to clean house from top to bottom in Washington.
Monday, January 24, 2005
AMMAN — The government on Sunday said plans by Iraqi interim officials to arrest controversial politician Ahmed Chalabi remain an internal affair of the violence-torn country.
Government Spokesperson Asma Khader, however, welcomed a possible extradition of Chalabi if he is arrested, noting that he is a fugitive from Jordanian law and was convicted on several counts of fraud and embezzlement in connection with the 1989 collapse of Petra Bank.
“Chalabi was convicted and remains a wanted man in Jordan. If he is extradited, then the necessary legal measures will be taken against him,” said Khader, also minister of culture.
Iraqi Defence Minister Hazem Shaalan announced over the weekend that his country's authorities would initiate criminal proceedings against Chalabi for his conviction in Jordan and he would be turned over to Interpol after Eid Al Adha.
In 1992, an Arthur Anderson audit indicated that JD242 million were missing from Petra Bank, where Chalabi was president. Chalabi was convicted by the State Security Court of embezzlement, theft, forgery and currency speculation among other charges. He was sentenced to 22 years of hard labour and ordered to repay more than JD350 million in embezzled funds. But Chalabi fled the country before his trial got underway.
Dammit! I could of swore he was al-quiedas new number 3 guy.
keeps turning up like a bad penny.
This is way beyond being ironic.
While looking for this Hunter S Thompson quote: "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
I came across this one: "In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile — and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely."
OH DEAR.
Soon another $ 1 or $ 2 billion in tax payers ( not Iraqi's ) dollars will disappear,
August 2004
Ahmad Chalabi, once favoured by the U.S. to head Iraq's interim government, has returned to Iraq to face counterfeiting charges.
Chalabi was travelling in Iran on Saturday when a judge in Iraq's Central Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him. He's accused of counterfeiting old Iraqi dinars, which were removed from circulation after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime last year. Police allegedly found the money in his house during a raid in May.
Could George Orwell have written any better? Bush&Co have already breathed life into the Orwellian fiction, and they continue.
Iran was once our ally after 9/11 -- now they are an arch enemy.
Chalabi was once exposed as a charlatan and a fraud, not to mention a criminal -- now he is in favor again.
Tom (not Tom) @ 8:
Yea, he's actually in Iraq to open up some used car lots. There's plenty of car bomb business there.
Chip @ 47:
That would make those cars "heavily used" , not just used .........
So when is someone going to press the US's central government to deliver better electricity, health, and education to its rotten infrastructure? Remember kids, regime change begins at home.
Blue Buddha @ 49:
The key words here are "To press."
With Chalibi that can be any number of methods including pay-offs, bribes, kick backs. If that is the case, he is the perfect candidate.
Ahhhh the good old days are back again....
In Pictures
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We love our international fugitives!
Chalabi's back, and the only real way for him to "pressure" Iraq's "government" to do all them good thangs is to make him "president," ain't it?
What about Admiral Poindexter? He could go over there and suck on his pipe.Oh never mind.He`s secretly running some spy program in the states.Well maybe he could change places with Mukasey,or maybe Chalabi is Bush`s answer to the sticky question of who the next AG will be.
Some country we have here,and they have there.I thought Chalabi wasn`t welcome in Iraq.
This shows how stupid the Bush Administration is. This man gave fake information about Iraq with the promise from Bush/Cheney he would be appointed President. He was getting 300,000 a month to guide the White House in the illegal invasion. He then turned on the US and robbed Iraq after the invasion. He worked with Iran against the US. A warrant for his arrest by the US was issued. Now that Iran has the support of Russia and China and the US has lost Iraq in comes the same crook to work with yes the US. Hiring Ahmad Chalabi shows Iran just how desperate the US is. Ahmad Chalabi will be working both sides now. I look for Iran to win this one too.
I remember doing a report in a foreign policy class about the run up to the war in Iraq back in '02. My research included a lot of foreign newspapers that stated in black and white what a crook this guy is. Funny that back then, in the US, he was considered a prime candidate to become president of Iraq.
The public has made up it's mind on iraq.
However, I am very disapointed with hillary's stand on iran.
Shit clumps together and so do crooks like Bush, Cheney, and Chalabi.
Really, somebody needs to cap this clown's ass.
OK, here's one of the few human beings on this planet that should be shot.
He has no interests other than his own self promotion and he lead a willing Bush/Cheney cabal into invading Iraq based on his lies and distortions.
How many American Soldiers/Marines/Airmen etc have died because of his lies?
He isn't worth the C4 that it would take to blow him up.
THIS MAN is the FACE of evil.
Another in a long list of people who played Chimp for a fool....which isn't hard to do mind you.
This administration must have big wallets with hundred dollar bills that say "take me away from this sucker...please".
But the real suckers are us. We end up the ones paying to make Chalabi and friends multi-millionaires to fool us yet again.
another plan plan doomed to failure and rip-off.
Chalabi's the king of wingnut welfare. No matter how long his rap sheet is they keep trying to rehab him to the Iraq and US public
I don't know about resiliency, but my guess it that good Iraqi bag-men must be really scarce nowadays.
Next they'll be hauling out Judith Miller...
Why the heck have they not thrown this guy out?
The same guy that gave the Neocons Curveball and their phoney justification to go to war and who was predestined to become 'officially elected' president.
Why do the Neocons want him? Because they are grasping for straws and knowing the horribly short attention span of the American populace they have already forgotten who he is and can now resell him.
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