Article in Moscow Times says Chalabi still Bush*its man --

[Emillereid]

they're apparently putting him in charge of 'protecting' the oil! I wonder how the Bushits are going to orchestrate the election of this sleazeball -- from what I can gather he is less popular that Saddam and Bush together.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5400.htm

Best-Laid Plans

By Chris Floyd 

12/19/03: (Moscow Times
) <snip>
Of course, it's not always easy to discern the president's steadfast adherence to principle through the defeatist fog of the liberal American media. For instance, this month saw perhaps the most significant progress yet toward the fulfillment of Bush's master plan, yet there was not a word about it anywhere in America's media "Establishment." No, Britain's Financial Times and South Africa's Sunday Times provided the unvarnished truth last week.

We refer, of course, to the $40 million contract awarded by occupation authorities to a private security company called Erinys Iraq. This plucky start-up is one of the great success stories of the occupation, having already bagged big money to ride shotgun for Halliburton and Bechtel as they spread their beneficent tentacles throughout the conquered land. Now little Erinys will guard the Holy Grail of the entire invasion project: Iraq's oil industry.

Erinys is a joint venture between a large South African freebooting firm and a few choice Iraqi investors. How choice? They are intimates of Ahmad Chalabi: leader of the Iraqi National Congress exile group, member of the Bush-appointed Governing Council, convicted swindler, darling of the Pentagon -- and the Bush plan's designated tyrant-to-be, the Iraqi face of a compliant, corporate-run colonial outpost in Mesopotamia.

This has been the plan all along: to install a "strongman" in Iraq who can "hold the country together" and protect the imperial flank while America "projects its dominance" over the oil wealth -- and political life -- of the Middle East and Central Asia. There's no great secret here: Team Bush has been talking about it for years in the corporate-funded "think tanks" they inhabited during the Clinton interregnum. There, they published their dreams about a "new Pearl Harbor" that would "catalyze" the American public into supporting wide-ranging militarization at home and extensive "interventions" abroad. This vision was most clearly articulated in a September 2000 report published by the Cheney-Rumsfeld group, Project for the New American Century.

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[Emillereid]

1. Why do the PNACers like Chalabi so much anyway?

[1songbird]

2. Did Chalabi ever serve time for his theft while in Jordan? n/t

[Emillereid]

4. Nope -- he fled from justice.

Imagine the chutzpah it takes to install this criminal puppet in Jordan's neighbor.

Why isn't this story of Chalabi involvement in the company providing armed support of our oil takeover getting bigger press. Wonder if the Iraqis know?

[1songbird]

5. A fugitive from justice, so not cool.

I'm not surprised about his oil connections because we did the same with Hamid Karzai. He was a Unocal staffer before becoming the aghanistan leader. This is the way that the Bushites roll. Big oil and money is their motto. The press of course will give them a free pass.

[Tinoire]

3. Thanksgiving...

U.S. President George W. Bush, center, meets with, from left to right, Dr. Mowaffar Al Robaie, Dr. Raja Habib Khuzai, Dr. Talal Talabani and Dr. Ahmad Chalabi at Baghdad International Airport Thursday, Nov. 27, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. Bush paid a surprise Thanksgiving day visit to American troops in Baghdad, flying to Baghdad to visit U.S. troops station in Iraq for Thanksgiving holiday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Iraqi Governing Counsel member Ahmad Chalabi (C) smiles while U.S. military troops applaud U. S. President George W. Bush who surprised U.S. military troops stationed in Iraq with a secret Thanksgiving Day visit to personally honor their service and sacrifice at the Baghdad International Airport, November 27, 2003. The president arrived in Iraq unannounced and met with troops before returning to his Central Texas ranch for the weekend. REUTERS/Larry Downing

[RBHam]

6. and the beat goes on...

installing another puppet dictator...

[Bush loves Jiang]

8. Somewhere in the deepest pits of Hell...

Chiang Kai-shek and Augosto Pinochet are having multiple orgasms.

[RBHam]

7. One sad thing, though....

I wonder what would happen if Mr. Floyd ever decided to expound on the way Russina President Vlad "the impaler" Putin seems to benefit, in the same way as Bush, through a Corporate stranglehold on the media. Also, the old KGB mastermind gains more autocratic power every time a convenient and well timed terrorist attack occurs.

USA-Russia-China...

Three nations in different stages of moving towards totalitarianism.

With the far and middle east to use as a battlefield?

Yikes.

[K-W]

9. The world is changing in a drastic way

that is becoming clearer to me every day.