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US says Iraqi politicians linked to Iran
By ANNE FLAHERTY
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top American commander in Iraq says the U.S. has “direct intelligence” that two senior Iraqi officials in charge of keeping Saddam Hussein loyalists out of the Baghdad government have ties to Iran.
Gen. Raymond Odierno says Ali al-Lami and Ahmed Chalabi “are clearly influenced by Iran” and have attended senior-level meetings with members of the hardline Shiite regime there.
Al-Lami, detained in 2008 because of alleged ties to a Baghdad bombing, now heads an Iraq commission that has blacklisted hundreds of political candidates. Chalabi, who is blamed for supplying the U.S. faulty intelligence on Iraq’s weapons program prior to the 2003 invasion, also is a member of the panel.
Odierno told an audience at the Institute for the Study of War that al-Lami “has been involved in various nefarious activities in Iraq for sometime” and called it “disappointing” that he was put in charge of the commission.
Still, Odierno says he hopes the committee’s work doesn’t “highjack” the election and that Iraq can remain focused on other critical issues, like jobs and security.
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What a fustercluck. I can see this easily segwaying into an argument for invading Iran...which is really just a bad idea. Of course, if we're going to do it, it would preferably be before they develop nuclear weapons.
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| Cylinsier wrote: | | What a fustercluck. I can see this easily segwaying into an argument for invading Iran...which is really just a bad idea. Of course, if we're going to do it, it would preferably be before they develop nuclear weapons. |
Chalabi, who is blamed for supplying the U.S. faulty intelligence on Iraq’s weapons program prior to the 2003 invasion, also is a member of the panel.
I think we have maintained or exceeded our levels of stupidity to fall for this a-holes lies again.
yea, go for it, no one has a job to go to anyhow . |
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brant-what is the reason behind the title of this thread?
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The point is that Bush and Cheney relied on what they should have known was absolute BS from Chalabi in the run-up to the invasion in Iraq, and now the same guy is siding against us with the Iranians.
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| Brant wrote: | | The point is that Bush and Cheney relied on what they should have known was absolute BS from Chalabi in the run-up to the invasion in Iraq, and now the same guy is siding against us with the Iranians. |
And he is a man whose stupidity was only ever exceeded but once, and that was accomplishment goes to the great GWB (aided and abetted by the "dick" and Dumsfield). |
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If I am not mistaken it was the Russian and Israllei intelligence that were using Chalabi, not the U.S.
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| SSSS wrote: | | If I am not mistaken it was the Russian and Israllei intelligence that were using Chalabi, not the U.S. |
You pizz people off ssss when you don't look up a few facts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Chalabi
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Initially, Chalabi enjoyed close political and business relationships with some members of the U.S. government, including some prominent neoconservatives within the Pentagon. Chalabi is said to have had political contacts within the Project for the New American Century, most notably with Paul Wolfowitz, a student of nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter, and Richard Perle who was introduced to Chalabi by Wohlstetter in 1985. He also enjoyed considerable support among politicians and political pundits in the United States, most notably Jim Hoagland of The Washington Post, who held him up as a notable force for democracy in Iraq[6]. He was a special guest of First Lady Laura Bush at the 2004 State of the Union Address.[7] |
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I thought I posted this link before. Maybe I put it in the wrong place. But it refutes SSSS's suggestion that Chalabi was not in very deep with the Bush-Cheney crowd:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/06/07/040607fa_fact1
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I was wrong
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Its not the first time.  BB |
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won't be the last either sparky.
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That's why everyone on here respects SSSS. If you show him evidence that runs counter to something he says, he admits he was mistaken. Unlike a couple of people we know here.
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| Brant wrote: | | That's why everyone on here respects SSSS. If you show him evidence that runs counter to something he says, he admits he was mistaken. Unlike a couple of people we know here. |
I'm error free....I never make mistakes.....Just call me "Brantski Jr."
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