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Ahmed Chalabi, a charlatan and a con-man, who defrauded a Jordanian Bank to the tune of $30 million.
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...............and deceived the world’s most powerful nation into launching a disastrous war at a cost of trillions of dollars and nearly 5,000 American lives. He deceived Cheney, Rumsfield and many of the Neo-Conservatives in Washington, who then convinced George Bush, AKA Capt Simpleton, to invade a sovereign nation on flimsy evidence of WMD. These same idiots now want us to start another war in the Middle East.

Gen Anthony Zinni On Ahmed Chalabi:
“He was a scam artist who conned many members of Congress, an administration, the neocons and some members of the military,” said Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, who served as commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East. “We tried to warn people, but it fell on deaf ears, and they vilified us as messengers. We all paid the price.”
In his new book, former CIA Director George Tenet reveals that Vice President Cheney and Pentagon officials pressed for the installation of an Iraqi government led by Ahmed Chalabi, an exile who provided bad information on Iraq’s supposed weapons programs.

Rather than risking an open-ended political process that Americans could influence but not control, they wanted to be able to limit the Iraqis’ power and handpick those Iraqis who would participate. … You had the impression that some in the Office of the Vice President and DOD reps were writing Chalabi’s name over and over again in their notes, like schoolgirls with their first crush.

...about it from a link in one of Laffy's posts below.  Chalabi is the man most responsible for giving cover to shit-for-brains Dubya's desire to invade Iraq.  Chalabi had not lived in Iraq since he left as a 14 year-old in 1958 but Bush relied on Chalabi's "knowledge" of Saddam to convince the world that Saddam had WMD.  

I spit on Chalabi's grave and I'd spit in Bush's face if he was standing in front of me for his bullshit invasion of Iraq which has thrown the entire Middle East into turmoil.

...............and deceived the world’s most powerful nation into launching a disastrous war at a cost of trillions of dollars and nearly 5,000 American lives. He deceived Cheney, Rumsfield and many of the Neo-Conservatives in Washington, who then convinced George Bush, AKA Capt Simpleton, to invade a sovereign nation on flimsy evidence of WMD. These same idiots now want us to start another war in the Middle East.

Gen Anthony Zinni On Ahmed Chalabi:

“He was a scam artist who conned many members of Congress, an administration, the neocons and some members of the military,” said Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, who served as commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East. “We tried to warn people, but it fell on deaf ears, and they vilified us as messengers. We all paid the price.”
In his new book, former CIA Director George Tenet reveals that Vice President Cheney and Pentagon officials pressed for the installation of an Iraqi government led by Ahmed Chalabi, an exile who provided bad information on Iraq’s supposed weapons programs.

Rather than risking an open-ended political process that Americans could influence but not control, they wanted to be able to limit the Iraqis’ power and handpick those Iraqis who would participate. … You had the impression that some in the Office of the Vice President and DOD reps were writing Chalabi’s name over and over again in their notes, like schoolgirls with their first crush.

...to be deceived so they could then deceive the American people in order to go to war with Iraq.  

Cheney, et.al., stovepiped Screwball's, er, Curveball's unvetted information and had Colin Powell give a speech full of bullshit to the UN in order to gin up the war.

"...when (Curveball) is told “we went to war in Iraq on a lie. And that lie was your lie,” he responds, only: “Yes.”

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