By Art Buchwald
Thursday, June 10, 2004; Page C04
Some people, the naysayers of the Iraq "police action," call it "Bush's War." But based on what I've read, I think we might call it "Chalabi's War."
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Until recently, the hawks took Chalabi's word for everything. I spoke to my Pentagon source, a member of the neoconservative hard hats, after Chalabi was defrocked by the media. "Is Chalabi a good guy or a bad guy?"
"That's not the question. He was our guy."
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"Why did he sit with Mrs. Bush during the State of the Union speech?"
"It was the only empty seat left in the balcony."
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"I read somewhere that he could have been a double agent, working for both us and Tehran."
My Pentagon leaker replied: "That's the neocon story and we're sticking to it. Look, this is not a war between good and evil, it is a war between people who think Bush is doing a good job and traitors who want us to get out."
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