Thursday, May 20, 2004
Chalabi
Check out this article in the NY Times.
No perceived friend of the US has a chance of gaining Iraqi acceptance as a ruler. Therefore - first Chalabi starts attacking the US - after we delivered him a country to rule over and paid his group $27 million for lies to justify the invasion. Now the circle is completed by Bremer appearing to attack Chalabi. Notice that Chalabi is now distancing himself from the US - saying he no longer is associated with the CPA. From the Times article:
"When America treats its friends this way, then they are in big trouble," Mr. Chalabi said. "My relationship with the Coalition Provisional Authority now is nonexistent."
Why is this important? Because the UN plan proposed by Lakhdar Brahimi for choosing the sovereign Iraqi leadership specifically says that no member of the US created Iraqi Provisional Authority (IPA) would be eligible. Chalabi is desperate to get off the IPA in order to have a chance to claim his prize. Bremer will help him by removing him from the authority.
These guys schemes are so transparent that the Iraqis will see right through it, but will Americans buy this subterfuge? Sure gullible is our middle name.
When the dust clears and Rumsfeld gets his wish that Richard Perle's good friend Chalabi becomes the ruler of Iraq "Gloom and Doomers" will say; "See this was never about democracy it was about installing our puppet Chalabi in power". The neo-cons will counter, "Ha, Chalabi has been a vocal critic of the US, he is his own man. We do not control him." This will not be altogether untrue because like other puppets we have installed before we will not completely control this conniving, greedy, rat-bastard.
If he were really out of favor with US officials we would pick him up and hand him over to the Jordanians to start serving his 22 year prison term for bank fraud. In the spirit of cooperation with allied governments shouldn't we be doing this anyway?
Check out this article in the NY Times.
No perceived friend of the US has a chance of gaining Iraqi acceptance as a ruler. Therefore - first Chalabi starts attacking the US - after we delivered him a country to rule over and paid his group $27 million for lies to justify the invasion. Now the circle is completed by Bremer appearing to attack Chalabi. Notice that Chalabi is now distancing himself from the US - saying he no longer is associated with the CPA. From the Times article:
"When America treats its friends this way, then they are in big trouble," Mr. Chalabi said. "My relationship with the Coalition Provisional Authority now is nonexistent."
Why is this important? Because the UN plan proposed by Lakhdar Brahimi for choosing the sovereign Iraqi leadership specifically says that no member of the US created Iraqi Provisional Authority (IPA) would be eligible. Chalabi is desperate to get off the IPA in order to have a chance to claim his prize. Bremer will help him by removing him from the authority.
These guys schemes are so transparent that the Iraqis will see right through it, but will Americans buy this subterfuge? Sure gullible is our middle name.
When the dust clears and Rumsfeld gets his wish that Richard Perle's good friend Chalabi becomes the ruler of Iraq "Gloom and Doomers" will say; "See this was never about democracy it was about installing our puppet Chalabi in power". The neo-cons will counter, "Ha, Chalabi has been a vocal critic of the US, he is his own man. We do not control him." This will not be altogether untrue because like other puppets we have installed before we will not completely control this conniving, greedy, rat-bastard.
If he were really out of favor with US officials we would pick him up and hand him over to the Jordanians to start serving his 22 year prison term for bank fraud. In the spirit of cooperation with allied governments shouldn't we be doing this anyway?
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