Chalabi stands by faulty intelligence that toppled Saddam's regime

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Chalabi stands by faulty intelligence that toppled Saddam's regime
By Jack Fairweather in Baghdad and Anton La Guardia
(Filed: 19/02/2004)

(Another example of bad judgement from this administration to believe anything that Chalabi said and act on it. JB)


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$5RM3YWKKUZDFXQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2004/02/19/wirq19.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/19/ixworld.html



An Iraqi leader accused of feeding faulty pre-war intelligence to Washington said yesterday his information about Saddam Hussein's weapons, even if discredited, had achieved the aim of persuading America to topple the dictator.

Ahmad Chalabi and his London-based exile group, the Iraqi National Congress, for years provided a conduit for Iraqi defectors who were debriefed by US intelligence agents. But many American officials now blame Mr Chalabi for providing intelligence that turned out to be false or wild exaggerations about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.



Mr Chalabi, by far the most effective anti-Saddam lobbyist in Washington, shrugged off charges that he had deliberately misled US intelligence. "We are heroes in error," he told the Telegraph in Baghdad.

"As far as we're concerned we've been entirely successful. That tyrant Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important. The Bush administration is looking for a scapegoat. We're ready to fall on our swords if he wants."

His comments are likely to inflame the debate on both sides of the Atlantic over the quality of pre-war intelligence, and the spin put on it by President George W Bush and Tony Blair as they argued for military action.

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1. LOL

It's funny how a 3rd rate crook can snooker a big old country like the US of A into an illegal war.

I wonder how the parents of the dead U.S Soldiers feel about it?

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2. Paging Orwell:

"We are heroes in error" - OMG!

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3. Chalabi is a self serving crook

Small wonder he still stands by the lies that made his dream come true.

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4. The thing about people that amazes me is that they tend to drift toward

people who are like themselves. Children of alcoholics become alcholics or marry alcoholics, because that is what they 'know', what they grow up seeing as normal. In this case, a bunch of liars and thugs found another liar and thug and to them he seemed entirely credible, because that is their nature, that is what they 'know'. That the guy is about to pull a big double cross on them should really come as no surprise, because that is exactly what they've done to the people of this country.

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5. And remember one of Saddams first visitors after he was captured!

I believe that by the end of 2005 Chabli will be assasinated....

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6. Suddam appeared when needed.....

It is all a "dog and pony show". Suddam is the Bush guy in Iraq.