Ha ! Better dispatch Condi to Baghdad to put Chalabi in line. Or is this a job for Karl? Or Dirty Dick. Or Perle? or Rummy? or Wolfie? or Howard Baker? or the Twins? or the family dog? How do you like your New Iraq democracy now, Georgie?

How do you like your New Iraq democracy now, Georgie?

T, you've obviously forgotten the initial rationale for the war which was: to replace a onetime cia asset with a onetime DoD asset/embezzler/iranian spy who will share power with fundamentalists. freedom's on the march!

Why does Chalabi hate America?

This has the stink of Iran/Conta.

I'm sure I read this in a Ludlum novel one time, which could be the guiding principle behind WH operations anyway, except for the part where the hero is a good guy not intent on personal enrichment on a grand scale at the fatal expense of millions of people and the government of the United States.

I mean, how convenient, he was in, we publicly denounced him, sorta, he publicly denounced us, sorta, but of course nothing happened of substance, he was out, but now he's back in, but safely cleaned of the taint of "America" and bush.

But not really.

Why is it that the people who try to do good, misguided or wrong headed or noble or not, get assasinated or otherwise silenced, and scum like chalbi get to rise from the ashes?

Are they all just vampires, sans stakes?

I think they are.

Benjoya..NO, the original rationale for the War was to protect us from an iminent Mushroom Cloud WMD attack because Saddam was holding huge stockpiles of chem, bio and nuke weapons. Stockpiles so huge that SecDef Rumsfeld knew exactly where they were stored.Your memory could use some work.

Now we hear that there could be irregularites in the Iraq vote. With Bush puppet Allawi trailing badly, and an Islamic Theocracy poised too take over the country, we now have to wait an "undetermined" length of time to get the fixed,er,recounted results. Could take years.

My guess is Chalabi would live about 2 days as PM of Iraq.

Man, what a spectacle. Chalabi as PM would push the Sunni's into total rebellion and like Abbie said, he wouldn't last long.

Should be interesting to see Chalabi's first state visit to Jordan...Theocracy is on the March!!

Chalabi as PM would push the Sunni's into total rebellion and like Abbie said, he wouldn't last long.

Which may well be the whole point of this blood-soaked exercise. I'm leaning toward the opinion that BushCo wants a full-blown civil war there. Such a development could easily be used to justify a permanent U.S. presence via the many American military bases being constructed throughout Iraq.

Hmmm..perpetual war equals perpetual profits for war profiteers. (aka Carlyle group) Anyone up for a read of "1984"?

I'm feeling cynical, but I don't think the elections change anything. The Sunni insurgents can and will isolate any government that comes into power, forcing them to rely on the U.S. and look like stooges.

Provoking a civil war would also give the U.S. the excuse to "protect" the Sunni's and attack Iran for their support of the Shias. Time to start conscription for the children of the KoolAid drinkers to support their president's crusade.

Chalabi thanked the American people, but then made it clear that the Iraqis voted out the American puppet in a display of genuine democracy.
This makes Iran the big winners of the American fiasco in Iraq. I do not understand neo-Con thinking here. In Afghanistan, we supported the Taliban against the Russian sponsored Northern Alliance. After we overthrew our Taliban, we installed the Northern Alliance into power, thereby doing the Russian's work for them. They reciprocated by increasing the heroin production 100 fold.
During the Iraq-Iran wars, we supported Iraq against our enemy Iraq. We supplied Saddam, we encouraged Saddam, and we supported Saddam. Then, for phony reasons we overthrew our puppet and are in the midst of installing Iranian puppets. I could understand better if the previous foreign policy were a Democratic one, but it was the Reagan/Bush foreign policy. Why the total repudiation of their own party?

Wonder when Bush will invite him to the White House.
No doubt he will be invited to a State of the Union speech.

Look, we all know that the Saudi Royals are living on borrowed time. They may have controlled this Country for generations, but their rein is in serious jeopardy. When Saudi Arabia throws the Royals out, we must be in control of the oil in Iraq, because we can't afford a period of not having oil. In other words, we have no plan on leaving now, tomorrow or twenty years from now. This Administration is not building 13 new military bases to abandon in 6 months or a year from now. I'll never understand why Democrats keeping asking for a timeline on leaving when they know damn well we have no intentions of leaving. I am so tired of the lying going on in both the Democratic and Republican Parties. Remember, we are not leaving Iraq no matter who or what is voted in or out.

That's "reign".

thanks for prodding my memory, T2. i also seem to remember something about "there's no difference when you're talking about osama and saddam"

that was a close one; if we hadn't gone into iraq, osama would have gotten away!