Beyond Belief: The U.S. Turns Yet Again To the Multiply, Universally Discredited Ahmed Chalabi in Iraq

I am beyond stunned. Ahmed Chalabi is the man STILL wanted for major financial fraud in Jordan, the man who helped "sell" us into the Iraq war to depose Saddam, the man who the Bushies seemed so eager to put up as interim Iraqi leader even as the Iraqis then favorable to U.S. intervention cried in horror at the very notion. The man who told us endlessly of massive weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that never, ever appeared anywhere, partially through the help of nitwits like "journalist" Judith Miller who wrote whatever Chalabi told her, unverified. The man who used to take $340K of U.S. taxpayer dollars each month to live in style. The man even the Bushies turned on at one point when Iraq first started to turn bad.

And yet it is Ahmed Chalabi the Bushies are turning TO again, this time to help lead Iraq through the Bush escalation there that no one wants but Bush, the neocons, perhaps Israel, and certainly Chalabi. This from the Wall Street Journal is far past sickening; it's in fact treasonous behavior on the part of the Bush Administration. Or, that is, MORE treasonous behavior.

In his latest remarkable political reincarnation, onetime U.S. favorite Ahmed Chalabi has secured a position inside the Iraqi government that could help determine whether the Bush administration’s new push to secure Baghdad succeeds.