Saturday, April 30, 2005
MoDo on the Thief of Baghdad
Maureen Dowds' column today discusses the ressurrection of Ahmed Chalabi as the "interim" Minister of Oil in the new Iraqi government. It's hard to say she discovers anything new, as all her points have been common knowledge for quite some time. If the Bushoviks think that this will help their good friends back in the oil patch they should consider this:
Oh Yeah! This guy is really gonna turn Iraq into the new Saudi Arabia for us. Anybody want to buy a bridge?
Ahmad Chalabi - convicted embezzler in Jordan, suspected Iranian spy, double-crosser of America, purveyor of phony war-instigating intelligence - is the new acting Iraqi oil minister.
The neocons' con man had been paid millions by the U.S. to tell the Bushies what they wanted to hear on Iraqi W.M.D. A year ago, the State Department and factions in the Pentagon turned on him after he began bashing America and using Saddam's secret files to discredit his enemies.
Newsweek revealed that the U.S. suspected Mr. Chalabi of leaking secret information about American war plans for Iraq to the Iranians before the invasion, and of perhaps leaking "highly classified" information to Iran that could "get people killed" if abused by the Iranians.
Now, showing survival skills that make Tom DeLay look like a piker, the resourceful Thief of Baghdad has popped back up as one of the four deputy prime ministers and the interim cabinet minister controlling the one valuable commodity in that wasteland: the second-largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia. He even has a DeLay-like talent for getting relatives on the payroll: a Chalabi nephew is the new finance minister.
Oh Yeah! This guy is really gonna turn Iraq into the new Saudi Arabia for us. Anybody want to buy a bridge?
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