Neocon Lets Cat Out of Bag

[CompassionateLiberal]

Good article on the big con game Cheney is playing with Chalabi. Sounds like this latest move is just a PR stunt to get Iraqi's to side with Chalabi.


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Neocon Lets Cat Out of Bag
Robert Dreyfuss
May 19, 2004
Michael Rubin—a young staffer at the American Enterprise Institute who’s just left the Pentagon, where he played a small role as a neocon cog in the Office of Special Plans war machine—let a herd of cats out of the bag about his favorite Iraqi phony, Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress.
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"By telegraphing that he is not the favorite son of America, the administration will bolster him, showing he is his own man."

In other words, it’s all a big con game. The still-neocon-dominated Pentagon—which this week stopped funding Chalabi’s INC —is playing its last card, hoping that it can boost Chalabi’s sagging fortunes by pretending to sever ties with him. That, the neocons hope, will allow Chalabi to strengthen his ties to Sistani, the king-making mullah who, they hope, holds Iraq’s fate in his wrinkled hands.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/neocon_lets_cat_out_of_bag.php

[LeighAnn]

1. That's what I thought.

Wouldn't this guy have so much dirt on Bush and Cheney that if they really wanted to get rid of him, he would commit suicide like everybody else?

[shraby]

4. That could by why

they took all his papers. I don't think he would be stupid enough to keep them in his office or home though. He still has them over a barrel as far as the "goods" go, and his standing will go up in the Iraqi's opinion. Although I don't think they will trust him as he isn't trustworthy.

[LeighAnn]

6. Yep. Does anybody believe anything these people say? EOM

[pansypoo53219]

2. only DICK

would want an Iranian spy as our point man in a lusterfuck.

go see eschaton.

[Spinzonner]

3. Not ANOTHER damn cat thread ...

Oh, wait.

Nevermind.

[punpirate]

5. If the US wanted Chalabi out of the way...

... all they have to do is honor the outstanding Jordanian warrant for his prior conviction. Hand him over and watch the Jordanians deposit him in the clink.

If the US doesn't do that, there may be some credence to young Michael Rubin's assertions.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Reverse psychology!!! Brilliant!!! Chalabi will be THE MAN now . . .