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To: jlallen who wrote (22833)	7/21/2003 12:44:14 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

jl........ If I were to ask you to 'invest' your son or daughter's Life... and untold amounts of money... based on Info....that came from a Known Liar and Thief.. (Ahmad Chalabi) Would you not .. Think Twice.... and question his motives........? His Agenda...and The Administration's ... were To Close for comfort Now we have Rule by .. Follie a Deux JL..... You have every Right to believe what You Desire...... As Do I....... Good Fortune ..to you..... Message 19127933 "The main OSP source of data on Iraqi weapons, and on the manner in which the Iraqi people would greet their 'liberators,' was Ahmad Chalabi. Chalabi was the head of the Iraqi National Congress, an exile group seeking since 1997 the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Chalabi had been hand-picked by Don Rumsfeld to be the leader of Iraq after the removal of Saddam Hussein, despite the fact that he had been convicted in 1992 of 32 counts of bank fraud by a Jordanian court and sentenced in absentia to 22 years in prison. It apparently never occurred to Rumsfeld and the OSP that Chalabi had a lot of reasons to lie. It seems they were too enamored of the data he was providing, because that data fully justified the course of action they had been set upon since September 11, 2001. Chalabi was the main source behind claims that Iraq had connections to al Qaeda. Chalabi was the main source behind claims that Iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. Chalabi was the main source behind claims that the Iraqi people would rise up and embrace their American invaders. Chalabi's claims on this last matter are the main reason post-war Iraq is in complete chaos, because Rumsfeld assumed the logistics for repairing Iraq would be simple - The joyful Iraqis would do it for him. According to a story entitled "Planners Faulted in Iraq Chaos" by Knight-Ridder reporters Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel, published on July 13, Chalabi proved to be a dangerous wild card. Chalabi's association with and influence over the OSP, however, continued unabated: "The Chalabi scheme was dealt another major blow in February, a month before the war started, when U.S. intelligence agencies monitored him conferring with hard-line Islamic leaders in Tehran, Iran, a State Department official said. About that time, an Iraqi Shiite militia that was based in Iran and known as the Badr Brigade began moving into northern Iraq, setting off alarm bells in Washington. Cheney, once a strong Chalabi backer, ordered the Pentagon to curb its support for the exiles, the official said. Yet Chalabi continued to receive Pentagon assistance, including backing for a 700-man paramilitary unit. The U.S. military flew Chalabi and his men at the height of the war from the safety of northern Iraq to an air base outside the southern city of Nasiriyah in expectation he would soon take power."

To: jlallen who wrote (22833)	7/21/2003 4:04:00 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Excellent article! Spot on! Too bad it will fall on deaf ears. The following paragraph sums that article up perfectly..... .....It is a national tragedy that in this hour of national crisis the Democratic Party does not have a single statesman who might follow the example of Tony Blair and stand up to the saboteurs and speak out for a bi-partisan front against those who have sworn to destroy us. That Democrats are not rallying around the President in its efforts to carry on the work of peace is an unforgiveable betrayal..... If it's not about vast right wing conspiracy theories or some false or misleading info blamed on the Bush Administration it just won't play here. They aren't interested in facts, truth or reality if it accurately exposes the anti-American left or establishes that Bush is doing the right things for the right reasons. They just want to keep drinking the Kool-Aid.