Could this Chalabi battle be a smokescreen?

[YEM]

We all know what happend today with Chalabi's house being raided. Well now Chalabi says he has "severed all ties with the coalition." Could it be that this is all a smokescreen so the Iraqis themselves trust Chalabi more now that he is not "working with the Americans." I find it very interesting timing that his house was "raided."

I would not be suprised...

[Straight Shooter]

1. I think they're getting ready to make him a scapegoat

To my understanding, the Iraqis have never trusted him.

[hexola]

2. Good Point - he might have more sucess as a leader...

by appearing to be "against" the coalition...so this could all be a ruse...

[AG78]

3. Just a pawn...

that was needed, used, then discarded. America(and any powerful country for that matter) has done it before, is currently doing it, and will do it many more times in the future.

[enough]

4. Yes, according to Robert Dreyfuss

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/neocon_lets_cat_out_of_bag.php
(short article)

Dreyfuss is a highly experienced reporter.

Neocon Lets Cat Out of Bag
Robert Dreyfuss
May 19, 2004

snip>

Chalabi, of course, is the roly-poly perpetrator of intelligence fraud and the convicted bank embezzler who still hopes to be leader of Iraq. Lately, Chalabi has scuttled into a would-be alliance with Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the scowly fatwa man. In doing so, he’s had the temerity to criticize the United States, leading some fuzzy thinkers to believe that Chalabi, whose puppet strings are made of steel, might be trying to show some independence from Washington. Well, says Rubin, who served as one the Pentagon’s liaisons to Chalabi, that’s exactly what they want you to think:

“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.

[goodhue]

5. most certainly n/t

[9215]

6. Chalabi has alot of dirt on the Bushies

IMO Bushboy was doing a little house cleaning.