Chalabi rules out Iraq troop withdrawal

[leftchick]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7F683EC5-2932-423C-901A-D23A961B657B.htm

Head of the Iraqi National Congress Ahmad Chalabi has ruled out the withdrawal of US and any multinational forces from Iraq at the present.


Speaking to Aljazeera on Sunday, Chalabi has said that Iraq needs these forces to be present until it is able to establish its own army and defend itself.

"Iraq now needs international support in the context of the United Nations, to defend itself and protect its land internally and externally," Chalabi said.

Chalabi is a controversial figure in Iraqi politics, currently the interim minister for oil and a deputy prime minister in Iraq, as of 28 April 2005.

[ixion]

1. uh, why is Chalabi not in prison?

I mean, how much bogus information that causes the deaths of thousands do you have to spew before you're sent to the Hague?

[saigon68]

6. He needs them so his SORRY ASS won't be blown up

Photos like this, are burned brightly into the minds of the resistance

The sorry bastard is right in back of Shit for Brains

[wookie294]

2. Since when does Chalabi decide when our troops will withdraw?

Sorry, Chalabi, but the America people will make that decision, not you.

[havocmom]

12. Perhaps Sharon has the week off?

:shrug:

[leesa]

3. So we are under the thumb of a convicted embezzler and someone

who sold US secrets to Iran during time of war. It's a crazy world, folks.

[tularetom]

4. Gee, doncha think we should have something to say

about that? Guess we now know who is calling the shots and why (who let this clown appoint himself "minister of oil"?).

[Dhalgren]

5. Well, I guess we know now who the Boss is, eh?

"Ahmad Chalabi has ruled out the withdrawal of US and any multinational forces from Iraq at the present." I guess if he "ruled out" any US withdrawal, then we have nothing to say in the matter...

[wookie294]

7. We need to ask Chalabi when we can send more money to Iraq

America is owned by foreign interests -- China, Japan, neoCons and Iraq. We are SUCKERS.

:banghead: :banghead:

[sam sarrha]

8. nice to know who is in charge...!!

[Jacobin]

9. Because he wouldn't last long outside the Green Zone

[acmavm]

10. EXACTLY. He's as goner if the US pulls out. And that's not necessarily

a bad thing.

[0007]

13. What ever happened to those spy charges?

Isn't Jordan still waiting to grab this embezzler.

Isn't it just a matter of time before Chalabi goes where all good little doggies go?

[Village Idiot]

11. They always seem to include the line:

"...Chalabi is a controversial figure in Iraqi politics..."

why don't they just come out and say "fraudster and embezzler?"

[tabasco]

14. Quisling rules out German troop withdrawal.

Mr. Quisling stated that a stable Nazi government must be established before the withdrawal of German military forces.

[IChing]

16. HITLER'S DIRECTIVE FOR THE OCCUPATION OF DENMARK AND NORWAY, MARCH 1, 1940

On principle, we will do our utmost to make the operation appear as a peaceful occupation, the object of which is the military protection of the neutrality of the Scandinavian States. Corresponding demands will be transmitted to the Governments at the beginning of the occupation. If necessary, demonstrations by the Navy and Air Force, will provide the necessary emphasis. If, in spite of this, resistance should be met with, all military means will be used to crush it.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1940/400301a.html

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. Yeah, because last time Chalabi determined our foreign policy

The results were a dazzling success....

:sarcasm:

[LynnTheDem]

17. CHALABI has "ruled out"...

And when did Ahmed "THANKS, AMERICAN SUCKERS!" Chalabi become the leader of USSA and Vietraq?

Just wondering.

[MagickMuffin]

18. Cheney said it best

[Catrina]

19. So an International Conman is now in charge of US troops?

This country better wake up fast! We have been taken over, it seems by foreign elements within this government, for whom the door was opened by the Bush administration and its cabal of neocons!! Wake Up America! We the people need to to DO something!!

[occuserpens]

20. Why should inventor of IWMD scam oppose occupation?

[cassiepriam]

21. I'm one of the folks paying the bill, don't I have a say??

[VegasWolf]

22. He is just parroting what Bush tells him. As long as US soldiers

are in Iraq, the US oil interests are guaranteed. Bush needs our US soldiers in Iraq.