[Cicero]

Ahmad Chalabi is mixed up in these charges, I see.

I still can't make out whether Chalabi is one of the good guys, with maybe a little corruption on the side, or one of the bad guys. I'm inclined to believe the military command rather than the State Department and the CIA, who went after him, but who knows?

Bush has to work with the bureacracies that are in place, and no doubt there's plenty of corruption, malfeasance, and incompetence just waiting to happen.

[piasa]

As much as the French & the Democrats & some others who took bribes from Saddam Hussein hate Chalabi, I tend to think Chalabi's an OK figure. They've flung an awful lot of mud his way and have had a lot of money to do it yet haven't been able to get anything but inuendo to stick.