Ahmad Chalabi, Who Conned America Into War, Now Aims To Lead Iraq
George W. Bush’s man in Iraq tries to take over — this
time under Obama.
Excerpts:
"Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi politician who peddled falsehoods
to persuade the United States to invade Iraq, is now attempting to take over as
Iraq’s prime minister, Iraqi and American sources say. While Chalabi has long aimed — but always failed — to lead Iraq, his latest
bid has a better chance to succeed because the current prime minister, Nouri
al-Maliki, has been crippled by the stunning loss of a third of Iraq’s territory
to Sunni militants."
"Before the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, Chalabi...became notorious for his influence in Washington among neoconservatives. Funded by the U.S. government itself, Chalabi’s group lobbied the successive American administrations to topple Saddam Hussein, pitching false stories about Hussein’s purported ties to terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. When the U.S. invaded, Chalabi’s neoconservative allies in the administration of President George W. Bush thought Chalabi would sweep into power like an Iraqi Charles de Gaulle...And as the extent of his ties to Iran became clear, many of his American allies divorced themselves from him."
Jagor's comment:
Ahmad Chalabi was so much the darling of
Presdient George Bush's crowd that he was even a special guest of Laura Bush at President
Bush's State of the Union messsage in January, 2004, seated directly behind the First Lady.
This convicted felon after embezzling
millions from a failed bank in Jordan,was on the run from the Jordanian government,
that had sentenced him to be thrown in the slammer for 22 years at hard labor. Once in Washingnton, Chalabi bedazzled
and enthralled Bush's naive advisors with his slick con artistry, so they
hand-picked him to be their puppet in Iraq after they got rid of Saddam
Hussein, who, if you're old enough to remember, had been our friend in the war
he started with Iran, because we hated the ayatollas in Tehran more than we hated Saddam!
Just like Bush had hand-picked Chalabi,
Victoria "Fuck the E.U." Nuland revealed in that infamous leaked phone call with American ambassador to the Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, that Obama had hand-picked "Yatz" [i.e. ArtseniyYatsenyuk] to be the puppet prime minister of the Ukraine, which be was in short order, after overthrowing
the democratically-elected president of the Ukraine in a coup d'état, aided and
abetted by the United States. Question still unanswered: why did the United States foment a coup d'état in the Ukraine, when a presidential election had already been scheduled for March 29, 2015, five years after the election of Viktor Yanukovych in February 2010?
Both examples confirm what a lot of
people outside the U.S. [and a a lot of people inside the United States] say
about the Bush-Obama neo-con American foreign policy: Washington may preach democracy to the rest of
the world, but whenever the powers that be find a democratically-elected president--or any
other leader--that displeases them by not toeing their line closely enough, they
get rid of him one way or another. In the case of the Ukraine it worked. They've got a civil war and the possible breakup of the Ukraine that they're blaming on Vladimir Putin by propagating the big lie that Russia invaded Crimea when--in actual fact--Russian troops had been stationed at their naval base for many years pursuant to a treaty between Russia and the Ukraine and the Crimeans voted overwhelmingly in a free and transparent election to reunite with Russia, just as the people of the Saar--a German-speaking French protectorate after World War II--voted in a referendum to reunite with Germay in 1955, a reunification confirmed by treaty and officilized on January 1, 1957.
In the case of Iraq the neo-cons failed to install Chalabi, but
they still got their civil war and the possible breakup of Iraq into three
separate regions, a plan that Joe Biden revealed on May 1, 2006, when he was still a sitting senator.
So we see an unbroken continuation of a
Bush-Obama policy towards Iraq, driven by neo-con ideologues who infested the Bush Administration and of whom, many have infiltrated the Obama Administraion. Among their underlying strategic goals have
been to weaken one of the Israelis' main adversaries and foment sectarian conflict
between Shias and Sunnis.
And now, we're witnessing Ahmad Chalabi renascent, resurrected Phoenix-like from the ashes of political limbo. Stay tuned...
