Chalabi says we're suckers. The end justifies the means.

[Solomon]

Here it is folks. Our very own Chalabi saying - so what we misled america, we got rid of Saddam.

http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040219-115614-3297r.htm

How does it feel to be the biggest sucker in the world?

[TexasMexican]

1. Its the Truth.

It was never about WMD, it was about getting rid of Saddam and getting a friendlier government in place.

[Postman]

2. That's funny, the troops thought it was for 9/11 and WMD's

I wonder if would say that to the more than 500 sets of parents who've lost their kid to this lie that is Iraq?

[Racenut20]

3. Rummy's co-conspirator

The PNAC group let a character like this be their source to convince the White House, who still had "he tried to kill my daddy" and was an easy prey since he is not very smart, convince the White House that the US should overthrow the Iraq Government. Thinking, I would suspect, that he would be the new Government. They should have exported him to Jordon and let him stand trial for the bank fraud indictment instead.

[Malva Zebrina]

4. and it was wrong

Whenthe United States becomes a nation that, with disregard for innocent human life, invades the country whose dictator they say is not friendly to them, it becomes a nation that is barbaric as other nations, past or present, that couch slaughter and genocide in more acceptable language as Bush is now trying to do. Saddam, of course as we all know, was a friend a decade or so ago.

I am not sure it was all about getting rid of Saddam in order to have a friendlier nation. Perhaps friendlier in the sense that Halliburton and others are now free to make billions and billions using the labor of the conquored, desperate people. I think there are multiple reasons intertwined.

I am waiting for Ron Suskind's book to be available in my little small llibrary. I hope some historian with a talent for laying out all the facts of this boondoggled tragedy will do so. It would be a great service to Americans to have them see how reckless, feckless and frivolous we have become as a nation. We are now war criminals, armed and dangerous with a man who, incredibly irresponsibly shunned his own military service, swaggering and bragging that he is a "war president" leading in his fantasy,like a Caesar, who is a god. He will meet his Rubicon soon, if not already.

The uneducated masses hang on his every word--actually praise him and think he is doing a great job--that is until one of their kids gets his/her head blown off in Iraq, or Afganistan, or Syria or Iran or wherever a crazed insane leader decides to invade next. More than likely they have no kids willing to serve "their president" to show him how much they appreciate his "good job"

[Mile Hi]

5. Funny I knew

This even before the invasion. It was common knowledge in the international media. Yet Kerry still voted to go to war. MMMMMHHHH
Guess Kerry wanted to play nice with GW.

[leetrisck]

6. We went to war for Chalabi & the Iraqi

National Congress - people who hadn't lived in Iraq for 30 years or longer. We out here in the countryside knew this and of course the Administration knew this so bush has killed our sons, daughters, wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, grandmothers & grandfathers and thousands of civilians so Chalabi (& bush) could say "so what"

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. He's a con man, nothing more, nothing less just ask...

Syria where he is wanted for fraud charges.

[Ilsa]

8. And convicted in Jordan in absentia for similar transgression. n/t

[Skidmore]

9. Since Chalabi was PNAC's boy in this scam, doesn't

this statement at last make the responsibility firmly that of * and Cheney and their buddies over the intelligence sources who tried to present cautionary statements before the war started? This strikes me as very useful politically in ousting this administration. I hope our nominee's use this.

[radwriter0555]

10. chalabi is the set up as the next saddam actually, him and karzai...

bush regime makes more bad guys to make phony wars later.