Reply #157: H2O- you never commented (that I saw)

[RainDog]

about the possible link to Jonathan Bush/Riggs Bank (as far as a way to move money covertly for arms and drug sales to fund more arms sales and pay off people and, surely, just to make a lot of money.

What I wonder about all this is the role of Chalabi, and what he might have to do with illegal arms sales to say, Iran. This is total speculation on my part, but Chalabi had a forgery ring, was feeding false WMD intel to both Miller and the willing ears of the OSP, and was also, apparently, feeding info to Iran.

Maybe Iran wanted the US to invade Iraq, fight the war for them, and make their old enemy useless...and also vulnerable to a Shi'a style theocracy.

This goal worked well for the Likudiks who were getting advice from Israeli Generals because Israel also wanted to get rid of Saddam and destabilize and neuter Iraq/Hussein.

The Israeli presence now among the Kurds is their stake in the possible civil war/balkanization of Iraq.

Iran is in the Shi'a dominated region...

and our troops are sitting ducks.

The greed of the corporatists blinded them to the ways in which they were played by Iran, maybe.

As far as what Plame knows...who was selling weapons to whom, and to do what?

That's another why, beyond the greed factor.