Chalabi does not like the U.S. anymore.

[Cascadian]

So they are surrounding Ahmad Chalabi's house. Chalabi, once a pro-US leader in Iraq has recently become a staunch critic of the U.S. occupation. I guess this is what happens when you cross the good ol' U.S. of A!!!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040520/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_chalabi&cid=540&ncid=716



John

[Hubert Flottz]

1. No Honor Among Thieves!

The man should have known, not to hang out with crooks like we have in the White House!

[Jacobin]

2. The Laurel and Hardy Administration

"It's another fine mess you've gotten us into"

[displacedtexan]

3. This is what happens when you have the goods on BushCo!

Aren't you convinced that Chalabi has (had) tons of evidence he could have used against BushCo to keep his sweet deal?

Do you think he has back up files?

[Raven]

4. The reason given for the raid was

that the US suspects corruption...they have paid his guy hundreds of thousands of dollars... he speaks out against US and NOW he's corrupt...NOW? If this wasn't so bad it would be funny. I now pronounce the Bush administration in full meltdown. Chalabi is the guy who is a close advisor to Cheney. He's the guy who got us into this mess in the first place. If nothing else, the incompetence is just stunning!

[charlie]

13. Hundreds of thousands, *snort*

Aside from what he skimmed off of over $100 million we've given to the INC, companies owned by his friends and family were awarded over $400 million in contracts to provide security for the oil pipelines in Iraq. Chalabi was reported to have received a $2 million kickback for securing the contracts. He was already wealthier than Croesus, having scammed a half billion from a Jordanian bank (Jordan still has an active warrant on his head) when he was younger. He is one greedy, greedy fuck.

[dansolo]

17. Like the $43 million we gave to the Taliban in 2001 (n/t)

[w13rd0]

5. Haha. read tje article...

...Chalabi, who fled Iraq in his childhood, said that the US is behaving no better than the Saddam regime. Guess Rumsferatu won't take Chalabi's calls anymore. I'd say it was a case of poetic justice, but others might say it's typical mafia style "tying up loose ends" tactics.

[robbedvoter]

6. Wait, is he still on the dole from US?

Did BFEE cut our taxfunded subsidy to this thug yet? And is Judith Miller still using him as a source?

Rate it!

[w13rd0]

7. We've declared that we terminate payments...

...on June 30th on the "handover". I'm sure Bush will fill us in on the details. Won't the Iraqi people be surprised! Oooo, I so love surprises. Considering that they are raiding his home, maybe they could stop those payments now. Why wait, he's served his purpose.

[LizW]

8. Mind-boggling

Yesterday we were paying this guy hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, today we are sending soldiers to his house to put a gun to his head and telling everyone how "corrupt" he is.

I can't keep up.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. It's a classic Bush FLIP FLOP!

I think they have a new mouthpiece for Iraq in mind! Someone we have complete faith in, as do those liberated ones in Iraq!

[charlie]

10. It's more flim-flam from Bushco

Neocon Lets Cat Out of Bag

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.

...

“Much of the information he collected was to roll up the insurgency and Ba'athist cells. It caught people red-handed," said Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser who is now at a conservative think-tank, the American Enterprise Institute.

"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

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. Wow, how much longer before the US extradites Chalabi

back to Jordon to face embezzlement charges? Before or after, he stands trial in Iraq for embezzlement?

[MSgt213]

12. Do you think he might not of liked us anyway? Maybe felt he had to

deal with the devil he might as well try to USE us the best way he could.

[Th1onein]

14. Awww, poor Chalai........eom

[senseandsensibility]

15. Did Chalabi really

demand that Iraq have full control of its oil revenue? I missed that if it happened recently. Very dangerous thing to do with this administration, I would think.

[w13rd0]

16. Yes, he did...

...he's struggling to become a "leader" of the Iraqi people, and he knows that the wind doth not blow upon our fair leaders back. Besides demanding that the handover include control of oil revenue and the military, FOX is now running a story saying that he was spying for Iran. I just can't stop laughing.