rbw1966 Posted May 20, 2004 Posted May 20, 2004 A raid was carried out on INC leader Chalabi's house under a warrant following the theft of state-owned vehicles. (Source) Quote
Blake Posted May 20, 2004 Posted May 20, 2004 That dude should be sent back to Jordan where he has an outstanding warrant against him for some huge fraud and theft. His connections to some powerful hawks in the administration, and his eagerness to lie and bring forth other liars who hyped iraq's threat to us, were major contributing factors to W's Iraq adventure. Quote
rbw1966 Posted May 20, 2004 Author Posted May 20, 2004 The US provides him with support (financial and political) and then he turns around and dumps on us. What an opportunist. Quote
stinkyclimber Posted May 20, 2004 Posted May 20, 2004 (edited) You can say exactly the same thing about bin Laden!! EDIT: ...and Saddam!!! Â Maybe the US Administration needs to think not just about WHAT it wants as outcomes, but also about HOW it reaches those outcomes? Edited May 20, 2004 by stinkyclimber Quote
Blake Posted May 20, 2004 Posted May 20, 2004 Well basically Saddamm and binladen were buddies with us because when it was "USA vs USSR" the enemy of our enemy was our friend. Not a good philosophy. Quote
chucK Posted May 20, 2004 Posted May 20, 2004 This might be sorta in the realm of blackhelicopterland but.... Â It seems like if we made it look like the US didn't like him. Like he was raging against us, that it could do nothing but help his popularity in Iraq. Might be a ploy to get a Bush sympathizer on the inside in the aftermath of the chaos that's going down July 1. Â <-- secretagentman smiley Quote
lummox Posted May 20, 2004 Posted May 20, 2004 This might be sorta in the realm of blackhelicopterland but....  It seems like if we made it look like the US didn't like him. Like he was raging against us, that it could do nothing but help his popularity in Iraq. Might be a ploy to get a Bush sympathizer on the inside in the aftermath of the chaos that's going down July 1.  <-- secretagentman smiley  BINGO! Quote
Fat_Teddy Posted May 20, 2004 Posted May 20, 2004 This might be sorta in the realm of blackhelicopterland but....  It seems like if we made it look like the US didn't like him. Like he was raging against us, that it could do nothing but help his popularity in Iraq. Might be a ploy to get a Bush sympathizer on the inside in the aftermath of the chaos that's going down July 1.  <-- secretagentman smiley  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Quote
Dave_Schuldt Posted May 21, 2004 Posted May 21, 2004 He shure had the Pentagon wraped around his little finger. He said what they wanted to hear. Quote
j_b Posted May 21, 2004 Posted May 21, 2004 interesting piece on salon about why this is happening:  http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/05/20/chalabi/index.html  "Why did the Bush administration turn against its former favorite Iraqi? Almost certainly because it realized that Chalabi, maddened by the realization that he was being excluded from the post-June 30 hand-over arrangements, was putting together a sectarian Shiite faction to destabilize and destroy the new Iraqi government." Quote
Beck Posted May 21, 2004 Posted May 21, 2004 give them the keys to the palace, and let the factions fight it out...o h, too bad Haliburton needs to rebuild all that oilfield infrastructure and the US is in such need of cheap oil we'll fight wars over it... remember, "conservation, it's a frivolous virtue" Dick Cheney Quote
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