Chalabi is snake that doesn't care about anyone or anything but himself. In a way it would be good if gets picked, because the Iraqi people hate him and come December when they vote again, they will vote the UIA out of power and Allawi's list will benifit big time.
It appears there's another country that hates him. Wonder which one?
MAY 20, 2004 : (CBS & PAT LANG vs CHALABI) One of the "former U.S. intelligence officials" who frequently feeds the media with false allegations about Chalabi actually has a name. He is Pat Lang, a former DIA Middle East analyst, who sometimes appears on air as a CBS News consultant.
Lang was quoted by Washington Post reporter Robin Wright in her front-page story on the raids [on Chalabi's house] that appeared yesterday, disparaging the intelligence Chalabi's group had provided the United States before the war.
"Now it's demonstrable that [Chalabi] told the U.S. government a lot of things that were not true," Lang said. In citing Lang as an expert on Iraq, neither CBS nor the Washington Post ever has mentioned that Lang has registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent for an Arab government. "How can somebody working for an Arab government parade about as a neutral analyst?" asks Rubin.
Chalabi never has denied his many visits to Iran or his meeting with high-level Iranian government officials.
Before the U.S.-led invasion, Chalabi and top INC officials had to travel through Iran to reach Iraq because Turkey had closed its borders to INC operatives.
"Actually, if truth be told, I think Ahmed has actually used the Iranians for our benefit," a key Chalabi supporter tells Insight. Chalabi appears to have been instrumental in getting the Iranian government to drop its support for radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, several sources say. ---------From WorldNetDaily.com, http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38609
Anybody who defends Chalabi is doing so to the detriment of President Bush. I have no use for the agents provacateur with agendas defending Chalibi.
Let those who value loyalty ---who are authentic conservatives---not conservatives of convenience with agendas----stand with President Bush, and let's not ever forget the reasons why President Bush let Chalabi hang.
As an authentic conservative, President Bush values loyalty above all else----as do all real conservatives. Mr Bush let Chalabi hang, and there was a very good reason for it.
"Uriah Heep" Chalabi was running the classic "Intelligence For Sale" scam. Every con artist and their cousin came crawling out of the woodwork to cash in. Chalabi was extorting $340,000 per month (that's per month) from US taxpayers. (Charles Dickens' Uriah Heep character was notorious for wielding undue influence, a bounder who was always planning and plotting, ingratiating himself into the confidence of others. Uriah Heep was obsequious, manipulative, and wormed his way into positions of influence. Uriah was a consummate con man, and not to be trusted. Translated into the language of the popular culture, the Uriah Heeps would position themselves as amenable to conservatives but are insincere in these feelings, using conservatives only to advance their own agendas and ambitions.)
The US paid Chalabi and his Iraq National Congress (INC) some $92 million dollars (plus all they could stash offshore). Chalabi's INC facilitated the effort to feed bogus intelligence to the Pentagon and the CIA. After the US invaded Iraq, our military could not even find the alleged agent network Chalabi said he ran. Chalabi's explanation? "They are in hiding".........What a crock.
Chalabi is part of the Mideast cesspool's ruling class---the Socialistic Darwinists---survival of the fittest with the strong devouring the weak----Chalabi is a master at it.
Moreover, Chalabi is a master swindler. He was convicted in absentia of incredibly vile criminal charges that were formally filed by Jordan. Chalabi, a long-time Iraqi exile, initially based himself in London, was by Richard Perle, a neo-conservative embedded in the US government. Chalabi first came into the limelight over his debacle in Jordan in 1992, when his Petra Bank went bust leaving more than $300 million in debts.
The Jordanians sentenced him in absentia, and a court in Amman found him guilty of 31 counts of embezzlement and bank fraud. He was given 22 years in hard labor.
Chalabi, however, never served any time. He was helped out of Jordan in a car provided for by Prince Hassan, the brother of then King Hussein. He made his way to London, where he survived on the monthly stipend of $340,000 allocated by the US Defense Department's Defense Intelligence Agency.
Chalabi claims he is innocent. Predictably, He says he was framed by Saddam Hussein and King Hussein, who connived to put an end to his anti-Saddam activities. Chalabi maintains that he is in possession of documents proving his innocence. Yeah, sure. And those documents are as authentic as CBS' TANG documents.
Appears to me that Chalabi is about as honest and trustworthy as GWB's worst enemy----George Soros. They were both convicted. Ergo, they are both criminals.