PNAC's beloved Iraq National Congress ekes out .36% of Baghdad vote

[BurtWorm]

That's just the teensiest bit over one third of one percent.


http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/12/23/chalabi/index.html

So much for Ahmed Chalabi

Remember how Dick Cheney and the neo-cons at the Pentagon fancied Ahmed Chalabi as the future leader of a free and democratic Iraq? The voters of Iraq have now had something to say about that, and it's not pretty. As Josh Marshall notes, Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress was a blip in last week's Iraqi elections. NBC News has the numbers: Chalabi's group got .36 percent of the votes in Baghdad and just .34 percent of the vote in Basra.

Like another Iraqi the Bush administration has embraced, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, Chalabi is arguing that last week's elections were tainted by fraud. But that's not a claim that fits well in purple-thumb story the White House is telling, so don't look for Chalabi's friends in Washington to come to his aid anytime soon.


-- Tim Grieve

[Lerkfish]

1. LOL! freedom is on the march!

[Orangepeel]

2. didn't they cut Chalabi loose after the Iran spying thing?

He was a special guest at a State of the Union and then bush claimed he barely knew him.

I thought that Allawi was the golden boy now. (it's hard to keep up)

[leftchick]

3. he was back in DC this past fall

and had a private sitdown with dick.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. I think Chalabi also had a private sit down

with Fitzgerald and the sudden renewed friendship was just for show.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. Wasn't Chalabi back in the US a few months ago

& it got out that he'd met with Cheney, Rice, etc.

But yeah, Allawi is the man.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Looks like they are going to have to cultivate some rather

hard to purchase....

SHIA PETS

[Botany]

7. Time to declare victory and get out.

I wonder if we get to pay the Lincoln Group another 100 million (which 25% gets kicked back)
to tell the Iraqis how great things are?

Who the hell got us into this mess?