Not sure about this one.
Thank God Bush opted for Allawi instead of Chalabi. Something about Chalabi just reeks of corruption.
I think maybe this guy missed the Inauguration Address yesterday.
Um, I don't think this is really too smart to do right before the election.
No matter what Chalabi may or may not be, this doesn't sound like a very good precedent.
This is why I proposed a long time ago making one of our conditions for helping these new governments that they put all of the provisions of our Bill of Rights into force in the their new constitutions. This story would seem to fly in the face of what we consider to be the God-given unalienable right to free speech.
('Course, it would be nice if we could get our tyrants-in-black-robes to implement those same provisions...)
I think this demonstrates how difficult the road ahead will be. It would be easy to support extraditing someone who is wanted for embezzling from a bank, but the stated reason for the extradition is that he accused someone in the Iraqi government of mismanaging (or worse) $500 million.
The implication is that if he had kept his mouth shut about the Iraqi official, he would not face extradition. Some justice system, eh?
Chalabi probably fabricated intelligence used to send us to war. I feel he is on his own. We owe him nothing. If he's corrupt then send him to Interpol. Actions speak louder than words in a situation like this.