Is A. Chalabi on the ballot in Iraq this week?? nt

[ihelpu2see]

[leftchick]

1. yes

isn't that special?



A Policeman secures a street as he passes by an election poster of Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi in Kerbala December 10, 2005. (Mushtaq Mohamad/Reuters)

[NI4NI]

5. Do you know which Party?

Can you tell me which party and for what position he is campaigning for?
I know that he has been the current deputy minister in charge of oil and that he's one of those....."lie to America so it will invade Iraq for my own personal gain" crooked evil bastards exactly like his friend and ally Dick Cheney.

[leftchick]

7. Info here....

Mona Mahmood in The Times's Baghdad bureau contributed to this report.

BAGHDAD The priests have long since departed, but the elite Jesuit high school called Baghdad College still looms over the swirling world of Iraqi politics.

The three Iraqi political leaders considered most likely to end up prime minister after nationwide elections this week - Ayad Allawi, Ahmed Chalabi and Adil Abdul Mahdi - were classmates at the all-boys English-language school in the late 1950s, fortunate members of the Baghdad elite that governed Iraq until successive waves of revolution and terror swept it away.

And now, with Saddam Hussein's interlopers locked up and the Iraqis preparing to select a full-term Parliament, the boys of Baghdad College have returned, aging men from exile, to assume their place atop the social hierarchy that they and their families once assumed would be theirs forever.

The three men are flagbearers for three different visions of Iraq's future: Allawi for a secular state, Abdul Mahdi for an Islamic-style democracy and Chalabi for a program that would purge Iraqi society of those associated with Saddam's regime.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/11/news/family.php

[NI4NI]

8. Thanks Leftchick

If Chalabi wins this election I think there will be a bullet or bomb with his name on it, if not already. Chances of Mahdi winning seem strong because of Sistani's support.

[leftchick]

9. you are welcome

and welcome to DU.

:)

[EFerrari]

2. Not only that, I wonder if my taxes paid for that billboard.

I feel a moral outrage coming on. Again.

Bush World can be exhausting.

[leftchick]

6. yes they did

It sure as hell hasn't been Iraqi OIL paying for anything!

And look what happens to most of them..

[pinto]

3. Yeah. Our First Embezzler to Iraq.

[goclark]

4. And the winner is....? Chalabi!!

[tridim]

10. Who else thinks Chalabi will be much worse than Saddam?

History is repeating itself with a vengeance.