Okay, don’t hit me, but it’s getting to be cocktail hour on Friday and I’m getting a little slap-happy.
Anyway, it seems that… everybody’s favorite whipping boy from the days when the “Noble Moore” bestrode the world like a colossus and the Iraq War was an unmitigated disaster with Jihadi “Minutemen” the only salvation for the civilized “progressive” mind… Ahmed Chalabi… was not such a nefarious trickster after all. In fact he and his “repeatedly tarred” Iraqi National Congrees were not finally the source of all the misleading information about WMDs. Of course, don’t expect to find this kind of exoneration on the front page of the NYT or the WaPo. It’s buried deep deep deep in an intelligence report. Clarice Feldman had to do the work for us, digging it out. Thanks, Clarice.
(ht: Catherine Johnson)
Roger:
I read something aobut his earlier and thought of you.
I think a lot of the bad info came from Germany in fact.
But we still don’t really know do we?
Curveball was a German intel asset. Not until later did the CIA demand direct contact.
I can’t fathom why the Germans would want to mislead. Maybe for the sake of respect they held off CIA interviews after realizing their treasured source was unstable.
And who coined him with the interesting name “curveball?”
“spitball” would have been more apropos.
Another American Thinker (smile) link…
http://rogerlsimon.com/archives/00000733.htm
…from 13 months ago.
The trashing of Chalabi and the treatment afforded Allawi during his visit to the US reminds me of the Woody Allen line, “I wouldn’t want to join any club that would have me as a member.”
These guys are contaminated by virtue of the fact that they were willing to work with us. It’s perfectly OK for us to work with Iraqi’s, as long as they don’t want to work with us.
Well hell the Russians were saying Saddam had weapons and was planning attacks in the US, after 9/11 what American president would ignore that?
ìwhat American president would ignore that?î
Terrye
Oh, I donít know, but a couple of names spring to mind. Thank God they never made it to the top.
ìThese guys are contaminated by virtue of the fact that they were willing to work with us. It’s perfectly OK for us to work with Iraqi’s, as long as they don’t want to work with us.î
We are in complete agreement. The American Left detests its own country. They will vociferously deny this, and charge you with slandering them when pointing out the obvious. Are they consciously lying to us, or just to themselves? I am not quite ready to play God. Instead, I will just point out the fact that if any foreign leader is strongly pro-American—they will treat this individual as scum of the earth.