[SevenMinusOne]

Chalabi essentially got railroaded by some disaffected State Dept folks. I'm not sure who's right, but we could do worse.

Not true - Chalabi was flown to Iraq early during the invasion - Some of our Special Forces A-teams had to work with him (and the people he brought) - They say he was a complete snake - he is not to be trusted in the least.

[Dog Gone]

This report from the National Review leaves me open-minded.

[David1]

Maybe that is what the special forces people have to say so chalabi can again look like not a puppet of the US.

[piasa]

Our special forces teams wouldn't be talking. Did you hear that from Seymour Hersh?

[piasa]

Not true - Chalabi was flown to Iraq early during the invasion - Some of our Special Forces A-teams had to work with him (and the people he brought) - They say he was a complete snake - he is not to be trusted in the least.

Those teams must not have been working too hard if they were sitting still for over a week:

After being airlifted from northern Iraq by the American military, he and 600 fighters of his Free Iraqi Forces were stuck for 10 days outside Nasiriya in a flea-ridden, bombed-out airbase awaiting American approval to travel to Baghdad.

I'm open minded on him either way but if people want to trash the guy they have to do better than say they heard from some snakeaters that he's a snake.

As I've pointed out, for a 'snake' he has all the same enemies as we do. There has to be a reason for that.