Chalabi was set up like a sniper target and never saw it coming. (Proof.) The idiot Iranian he went scurrying to with this super intelligence didn't know whether to believe him, so he sent a message to Iran using the same code and pinpointed a weapons depot to see if the Americans would raid the location. They didn't because the target was Chalabi and the coded message was supposed to be a trap. Seems like someone was paying a heck of a lot more attention to the Chalabi connection than Chalabi was paying attention to a great Foster Brooks act.
I'm not one for grand conspiracies, but this one has a good ending. I think Chalabi's fall from grace served our interest in two ways. First, it showed that we could be objective in our goals even when our hand picked man screws up, and second, it allows the appearance of a less connected (to the USA) leader to be selected. Either way we win. Putting myself in the sandals of an Iraqi, I couldn't help but resent the way Chalabi was shoved down their throats by the US. I didn't think he would have had a very long shelf life.
Hey! Wait a minute! Don't you remember? Didn't you get the memo? Bush is stupid! Or an evil genius. That's what the media and the Dems. say. Bush is a stupid evil genius!
Seriously, I remember one time when Bush was on Texas gov. I met with a group of people he had picked to start and run a "faith based" prgram in the Texas prision system. These people were mostly Phd's. They all made it clear that Bush was a brilliant man and extremely organized. And that if they did not make the "milestones" Bush had in the project plans they were "toast". He'd replace them with someone that could get the job done.
A person only has to start with Ann Richards and go forward through all the people that Bush has either outsmarted, outwitted or basically beat the snot out of to see why the left hates him. Bush plays poker with one hand and chess with the other. They can't handle him.