Good Riddance

NBC news tonight reported that Ahmed Chalabi, the man wanted in Jordan for bank fraud whom the US gleefully installed as an overpaid informant in Iraq after US troops moved in last year, is out. Strangely, CNN has nothing about this, nor do several other news outlets.

Now the only question here is why it took so long? While Bush and Company had Chalabi here several times as their "honored guest", including at the State of the Union speech this year (where I believe Chalabi sat with Laura Bush), it was known well before now that a) he's a liar b) he's a thief c) he deliberately gave us very bad intelligence (albeit just the type of thing Bush wanted to hear to justify the war).

Wait. There's another question. Bush knew Chalabi was rotten to the core. Why won't Bush pay any price - political or otherwise - for allowing Chalabi such reign? Boy, and they used to call Gotti the Teflon Don.