Posted on 05/20/2004 7:25:00 PM PDT by Eurotwit
I agree, I think alot of people are mis-reading this. We aren't going to blow the oil for food scandal wide open - we are going to get something for it, the UN resolution. What happens to Chalabi himself - he may well be expendable.
I'm not sure its a bad deal - let's face it, does anyone really expect Kofi Annan and Chirac to walk off in handcuffs? It's not going to happen. The media is burying this oil for food scandal anyway. So if we can get something out of it, let's do it.
Any help we can get in stabilizing Iraq, in the long term view, is alot more important then a few million in bribes.
Nothing like global corruption in the wannabe global government, is there. No wonder the French and the Russians (et.al.) didn't want to pitch in.
Among the names in Chalabi's documents: Senator John F'in Kerry, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton...
Wouldn't orders for the raid have been given by someone in the executive branch?
What exactly is going on here??? All over the news today is an entirely different story about Chalabi---that he passed on very sensitive info to Iran, info that could have gotten Americans killed, and that he's been "challenging" the plans America has made for the June 30 transfer of power.
This is weird, that on the same day, two completely different stories about the same man surface.
swept under the rug? perhaps. then there's blackmail, the next best option to exposing corruption is using it to blackmail the UN, and get something in return. let's see how it plays out.
Grain of salt.
Yes, see my post #25---these two stories could be related somehow, but it's as though there are two "official" stories about Chalabi, with two completely different agendas and two completely different spins. At least we now know that the news isn't completely "managed" by a monolithic White House of Centcom. I still think this is weird.
Monsoor was on Greta tonight talking about the Iran aspect. I'm as dumbfounded as you. I kept thinking, "Well, maybe their are two guys with the same name...?"
This is a Clancey novel, right?
Instead of playing things close to the vest in that multi-ended game of blackmail, he should have played his hand at the start, and been the hero.
The irony is that if he'd done that, he'd likely have gotten everything he was scheming to get.
Instead, he's just one more marked man in the armpit of the world.
Yep....that is the question.
So then it sounds like it is NOT close to the truth.
Maybe as good as the FBI files the Hildebeast appropriated!
Isn't Bremer a Dem?
Hmmmm.. Gorelick investigating 9/11 and Chalabi investigating this.. Who IS Chalabi ? really..
I want to see the whole list.
Hillary would never let it get that far. But it's nice to dream about.
Man what a tangled web this is.
Who are the good guys/bad guys? Chalabi, Tenet, Bremer, Annan, Savon (sp) the list goes on
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