It may not be long now before the neocons are successful in installing their good friend and Iranian double agent Ahmad Chalabi as....PRIME MINISTER OF IRAQ.
This was buried 7 paragraphs deep on
MSNBC:
Top Shiite politicians have agreed to choose their nominee for prime minister through a secret ballot, expected to take place Friday, to decide a two-man race between Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Ahmad Chalabi.
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The contrast between the two candidates for prime minister is stark and reveals a division within the clergy-endorsed alliance, made up of 10 major political parties and various allied smaller groups.
Al-Jaafari, 58, is the leader of the religious Dawa Party, one of Iraq's oldest parties, known for its popularity and close ties to Iran. Although al-Jaafari is a moderate, his party's platform is conservative.
Chalabi, 58, who left Iraq as a teen, leads the Iraqi National Congress and had close ties to the Pentagon before falling out of favor last year after claims he passed intelligence information to Iran.
A secular Shiite, Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress is an umbrella for groups that included Iraqi exiles, Kurds and Shiites. Much of the supposed intelligence his group supplied on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction programs failed to pan out.
This is a nightmare. Chalabi is a liar and profiteer who got the American public to spend $200+ billion, lose nearly 1500 of its sons and daughters, horribly disfiguring thousands of others, and tarnishing our most cherished international alliances, so that he could ascend to the position he is on the verge of taking.
Thanks Dubya.
Thanks Cheney.
Thanks Rumsfeld.
You've replaced a secular dictator with no nuclear program with a double agent with VERY close ties to a nation who certainly does (Iran).
Yeah. That war on terror is going just great, guys. Is it 2008, yet?