Chalabi has key role in Baghdad effort

[sabra]

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20070125-010054-4380r

Chalabi has key role in Baghdad effort

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- One of the Iraq government's critical tasks to pacify the country is to rein in the excesses of de-Baathification.

The man in charge of the effort is Ahmad Chalabi, the controversial Iraqi Shiite ex-patriate who formerly headed the Iraqi National Congress, lobbied hard for regime change, and was a key link in the chain of inaccurate intelligence about Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction program.

A top State Department official told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday that Chalabi's de-Baathification committee is not making the changes needed to ease the economic and political restrictions on former Baathists. Many were part of the Baath Party only because it was required of them by the regime but are now sidelined and are believed to be fueling the insurgency. Thousands of Iraq's most educated and capable technocrats, professors and industrial leaders were put out of work and told they had no future in Iraq when the United States issued the de-Baaatification order in June 2003.

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Committee chairman Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) expressed concern that so much is riding on Chalabi's leadership.

"I find him to be a duplicitous individual, and I have no faith -- and I think he's one of our giant problems and continues to be," Biden said.

[pinto]

1. Biden's comment is very diplomatic, a huge understatement, yet on point.

"I find him to be a duplicitous individual, and I have no faith -- and I think he's one of our giant problems and continues to be," Biden said.

[burrowowl]

2. Biden hit the

nail on the head.

[billyoc]

3. Apparently Iraq hasn't evolved to the point

of signing extradition treaties with their neighbors yet. :eyes:

[roamer65]

4. Chalabi is like a bad penny or a really bad fart...

You can just never seem to get rid of it or make it go away.

[arewenotdemo]

7. Chalabi is the head of the boil

Israeli/"American" neocons (Wolfowitz, Abrams et al.) and Bush and Cheney are the pus inside.

[AlCzervik]

5. of for f*cks sake! i cannot believe this guy is still around much less breathing.

[MidwestTransplant]

6. Chalabi serves at the pleasure of the Ayatolla

[Trajan]

8. Chalabi's 'Key Role' ....

Should be scrubbing metal prison toilets to a mirror-like shine ....

Funny how this felon is a favorite of the current Neocon regime .... Criminality suits their personalities so well .....

Well .... kinda funny ....

[Eugene]

9. De-Baathification was Chalabi's idea. Somebody trusted that con man to fix it?

As the old saying goes, "Fool me twice, shame on me."

[IndianaGreen]

10. Chalabi, the Iranian spy and ex-lover of Judith Miller, is working for us again!

What fools are running the show?

[maddezmom]

11. so could he be considered an Iran secret agent?

if so his days may be numbered

[underpants]

12. I've changed my mind with aces like Chalabi involved how can we go wrong?

:sarcasm: