Was Chalabi's "falling out" with the White House BS?

[Langis]

It seems to me that Chalabi may end up being the PM of Iraq. Was his falling out with the White House just a way to make it look as if he was not a puppet of the US? It looks that way to me, al-Yawir would be to obvious but everyone thinks we hate Chalabi.

Just thinking out loud, and I completly wrong here?

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. No

I think he was an Iranian spy all along that knew how to play the WH: tell them what they want to hear. His problem is that he's also a greedy fuck and intruded into the realm of Halliburton's profits.

[RDANGELO]

10. Could be.

It is apparent that the Iraqi expatriates had a big hand in convincing the *administration that the invasion and occupation was going to be easy, and that at least some of them were Iranian spies. Saddam had been a craw in the side of the Iranians for a long time. They could never get rid of him; now we have done it for them. This all could have been a trap set by the Iranians from the beginning. notice that once we started rattling our sabers at Iran and Syria, Russia lined up behind them. They could have been in on it from the beginning also. If Chalabi does turn out to be the PM, the question is who engineered it , the US or Iran.

[blm]

2. Yes. Many of us said so at the time. It was a dog and pony show.

Funny they made a big show of going to arrest him and then changed their minds.

[KoKo]

7. Yep, blm. I remember that, too. It's amazing if the Bushies pull this

one off, though... The disinformation spinning around Chalabi has been incredible. But, with Judith Miller's help her guy might make it. And, Judith will surely never go behind bars for not not revealing her source because that whole thing is "disinfomration" too with the courts playing games with the press and the public...

[TomClash]

8. Who's the dog and who's the pony?

[Hell Hath No Fury]

3. It was the anti-Bush wing of the CIA...

who was outing Chalabi back then, and the WH had to back away from their boy.

But, I say -- with enough cash involved -- he could still be their boy.

[TheFarseer]

4. I think there's something to that

What I don't understand is exactly how he gets to be prime minister out of that election. Who the f**k in Iraq would vote for HIM?

[w13rd0]

5. Chalabi's goons...

...orchestrated the statue pull-down PR propagannon event, and he and his thugs have served Bush well. Sure he's a spy for Iran, but that's ok, they are next on the hitlist. I'm sure the Bushtistas would tell you, "You have to break a few eggs to make an omlet" and although Bush claims he didn't know that man Ken Lay, I mean Ahmed Chalabi, it certainly didn't hurt his prospects. Who is playing who? With them, they don't care, as long as they are making money.

[Roland99]

9. Wow...he pulled the ultimate power move:

Get the U.S. to invade Iraq based upon fake information he and his toadies fed to Feith and then he lands upon the throne once the dust has settled.


If I believed in a God and a Hell, I'd be damned sure Chalabi would burn in eternity in that Hell.

[John Q. Citizen]

6. If Chalabi wins, then yes.

Whoever wins will be exceptable to the occupying power. Otherwise, why occupy?

It's about power, not about democracy or high falooten principle.