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Details emerged in April 1997 of one of the CIA’s greatest failures since its operations began. Up to 300 Iraqis died as the result of a failed attempt by the CIA to overthrow Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader. The CIA financed an Iraqi opposition group (the Iraqi National Accord) which killed 100 people in a bombing campaign against civilian targets in Baghdad and other cities, and fomented a military coup against the Iraqi leader. In June 1996 Saddam Hussein struck first, crushing the CIA-backed coup with ease; as many as 80 officers were executed or died under torture. In August Iraqi tanks also intervened in the Kurdish civil war, catching and killing 120 members of the CIA-backed dissident group. The débâcle led to the liquidation of the agency’s extensive operation in northern Iraq, and the then CIA director John Deutsch stepped down 1997.

There's some interesting spillback from that period of the Chalabi/CIA mess in Iraq during Emperor Clintonius's reign.

James Woolsey..former CIA director smiles alot when asked about that period.
Clearly..Clinton allowed certain individuals to burn James Woolsey down.[Those in the Pentagon and State Dept who had it in for him].
Their were rumblings from Congress on monies given to Chalabi's little band [Some 97 Million]...again..Clinton simply let them burn Woolsey at the stake.

January 1999 Foreign Affairs article that exposed the Iraqi National Congress (INC) by name, after its head, Ahmed Chalabi, a neo-conservative lunatic, told a U.S. Senate hearing in Spring 1998: "Give the Iraqi National Congress a base protected from Saddam's tanks, give us the temporary support we need to feed and house and care for the liberated population, and we will give you a free Iraq, an Iraq free of weapons of mass destruction, and a free-market Iraq. Best of all, the INC will do this all for free."

Foreign Affairs wrote, "The INC plan is so flawed and unrealistic that it would lead inexorably to a replay of the Bay of Pigs. U.S. officials would ultimately face the choice of intervening directly or watching the [INC] get butchered."

Matt Drudge commented on his Sunday broadcast 2 weeks ago..that he saw Richard Perle at a function in Washington,
said Perle looked like a man with a tortured soul.

Richard Perle stepped down from his position on the Defence policy board,
connected on the periphery of the Global Crossing scandal...Fibre optics..China...monies.
Add to this..his relationship with the tallking hand puppet known as Ahmed Chalabi.

Like Global Crossing....Chalabi will be the ruin of many.

It spins further..the advisory/implimentation track.
Some rather startling statements..like General Tommy Franks comments on Pentagon icon Douglas Feith.

Today..the obvious rift between Sate Dept and the Pentagon concerning Iraq...details unfold..film at 11:00.

Will all the fallout of Chalabi entangle Paul Wolfowitz?
Wolfowitz may have had a bad week when he appeared on the Hill recently...he certainly did not come off the Hill with a theme of confidence issuing from Republicans,
certainly ..an open door for Democrats to manuver.

James Woolsey has been an interesting read/interview of late,
James smiles alot..as mentioned earlier in my post.
Some of the adminstration and formers now in the spotlight..are his friends,
yet..he smiles..and remains silent after certain idents are posed to him in interviews.
Here's a guy who knows where,when and why..things went wrong concerning Iraq.
James is unlikely to do a Richard Clarke,...and he could,..with his accounts of how treacherous Emperor Clintonius was....how the CIA failed to learn from Clintons admin failures....stumbled on into the 90's.

Hope he writes a book someday down the road.