Iraq Council Calls for US Forces to Leave Iraq

[farmbo]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_393112,001300180038.htm

In a surprising development the president of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council on Saturday said that US troops should leave Iraq and be replaced by a UN-led international force to protect the country.

Ahmad Chalabi in an interview to the London-based Arabic daily, Al-Hayat, said that a United Nations resolution to send peacekeepers to Iraq would signal the end to his country's US-led occupation.

"We do not want an occupation force in Iraq" Chalabi told Al-Hayat. "But we want an international force to remain in order to protect Iraq from any external dangers, the same as happens in several Arab countries."

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Puppetmeister Bremmer had better tell Chalabi to put a sock in it. Next thing you know they'll be calling for free elections and (shutter) freedom of expression!

[zbdent]

1. No, we got to encourage self-rule, as long as we get to tell them

what they want.

[Flying_Pig]

2. D'oh! PNAC's puppet boy is starting to think for himself. Any bets

there's a car bomb in his future???

[underpants]

3. He started this at hte UN last week. W is getting played by CHALABI???

Jeebus is their anyone who can't out maneuver W&Co.?

Morans!

What are the Vegas odds on the car bomb thing? What about on him slipping on some soap and falling down 37 times?

[7th_Sephiroth]

13. the odds are 10-1

that he accidentally sneezes and breaks his neck
5-1 he slips and impales himself on a bullet
and 2-1 he goes out to the woods and shoots himself in the head twice

[NNN0LHI]

4. This is just someones idea to try to keep these puppets alive

Remember that all of these idiots are hand picked by Rumsfeld. If they didn't say what he told them to say, he would just hand pick some new ones. That is my take.

Don

[punpirate]

5. Chalabi is sensing...

... an opportunity to put himself in charge by aligning himself with popular opinion. He isn't happy with being the lowly Minister of Finance (isn't that, in itself, a hoot!).

Little does he realize that if the US forces leave, so do his US-paid bodyguards. His ambition will send him on a short trip to the morgue.

[catmandu57]

6. If they were to stumble accross Saddam today

what excuse could they use not to give chalibi his wish and leave the country? For that matter what excuse would w* and co. give to the world for not leaving the country?
Odds are they have saddam on ice somewhere, and will use him for the bogeyman, in order to keep an american foot on the neck of the iraqis.
This puppet better learn that puppets who don't tow the line don't stay around long.

[salin]

7. Or... Chalabi is playing the script?

Bush knew he needed UN help after the very cool reception by the country to his request of 87B. SOme of BUsh's script writers are already threatening other countrie and need to free up troops.

But as anyone who watched or read about his speech knows - he didn't come anywhere close to where he needed to be to get that support. He wasn't humble. He didn't concede passing over any power. And he introduced new reasons - like the approach to WMDs to be in, but while concerning they were no where of the magnitude of WMDs. BUSH was speaking to the UN - but he wasn't. He was speaking to the rightwing radio listening public.

But he still needs to get the UN in to provide troops and $ and free US troops for the next adventure (and in time to pump up the electorate with patriotic fervor for another campaign.)

So could it be that Chalabi is playing it according to the script? COuld the deals to give the corp advantage to US already be in place so the PNACers are willing to consider it a 'victory' in order to move on to the next country?

[Flying_Pig]

8. A likely explanation. We know that the PNAC/Bush cabal has no ...

plans to stop their conquest of the ME. Iran and Syria are next, and Israel is pushing very, very, hard to get the U.S. to start bombing and invasion there. With the election coming up, Likud's allies here in the U.S. (PNAC/AIPAC/JDL/JINSA) are putting intense pressure on Bush, as are their allies in the media. Bush sees it as a way to satisfy right-wing pro-Likud voters here, get more oil (in Iran), and as a way to change the headlines from what they are, to war, war, war, ....again. Another "trifecta" plan....

Question is, will we allow them to take us down this path again? Will the Bush cabal continue to allow an outside country (Israel) to influence our foreign, military, and domestic political policies (in violation of our Constitution, I might add), so as to lead us into another war, and, how badly are Bush's oil buddies pushing for Iran's oil?? Stay tuned for the answers to these questions.

[FloridaPat]

9. The US needs a legitimate government in Iraq so they can

sign those contracts to steal the oil. Bush is stuck until he can gets his hands on the oil. Chlabi is for privitization. He's been telling the Bush administration how eveyone in Iraq can't wait for the US to come in. More games here.

[snippy]

10. I am shocked and awed.

I would like to know whether Chalabi is reading from or straying from the script written by Weasel Ass (Rumsfeld).

On a somewhat related note, I saw on CNN yesterday that the Iraqi Governing Council has taken to sarcastically referring to Bremmer as the King of Baghdad.

[teryang]

11. Chalabi is desparate

Nothing will remove the quisling stigma from this man. He's the Pierre Laval of Iraq. The UN and the rest of the world seem to have "moved on" from the Iraq diaster. Now the ship of fools is preparing to go down.

[donsu]

12. Iraqi Governing Council has a shadow

was going to post an article yesterday that had buried in it this:

that each member of the Council was assigned a bushgang handler.

can't remember where I saw this (had to cut short my visit to DU and didn't save the article)

made my wonder about the handler for the woman that was murdered.

[Gin]

14. I read where Chalabi is talking with other countries and wheeling

and dealing...he's a sneak and a crook.. and will burn the US and the cabal in a heartbeat...there is no honor among thieves.